Virgin Soil: New Translation

Name: Virgin Soil: New Translation
Brand: Alma Books Ltd

Alma Books Ltd

Turgenev\u2019s final novel, Virgin Soil traces the destinies of several middle-class revolutionaries who seek to \u201Cgo to the people\u201D by working on the land and instilling democratic ideas in the countryside\u2019s locals. They include the daydreaming impoverished young tutor Nezhdanov \u2013 employed by the liberal councillor Sipyagin and his vain and beautiful wife Valentina \u2013 the naive young radical Maryanna and the progressive factory manager Solomin.\nTheir liaisons, intrigues and conspiracies, set against the backdrop of Tsarist Russia, form the matter of Turgenev\u2019s most ambitious and elaborate work, which cemented the author\u2019s place in the West as Russia\u2019s foremost novelist while at the same time proving controversial at home \u2013 culminating in the arrest of fifty-two real-life revolutionaries barely\n\nVirgin Soil: New Translation\n\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracke;