Fathers and Children
Author: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Category: Other2
Published: 2009
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Read OnlineSuch are, generally speaking, the characters the author describes, which bear so unmistakably the stamp of nature that one cannot refrain from saying as he closes the book, "These must be portraits from life!" which criticism is always the highest praise, the best sanction of works of the imagination.—From "Turgenev", in "The Russian Novelists," translated by J. L. Edmands (1887).