by Ivan Turgenev
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“I loved this book as a teenager and have never forgotten how completely absorbed I was by Turgenev’s wonderfully evocative world.”
Recommended by 3 notable people, including Ernest Hemingway and Ngozi Adichie
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Considered one of Ivan Turgenev's finest works, Fathers and Sons was the first of the great nineteenthcentury Russian novels to achieve international renown. A stirring tale of generational conflict during a period of social revolution, it vividly depicts the friction between liberal and conservative thought and the rise of the radical new philoso...
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Consider The Republic by Plato. Recommended by 13 sources.
“Plato stages an extended Socratic conversation that moves from concrete questions about justice into broad proposals about an ideal city, the structure of the soul, and what counts as reality and knowledge. Reading alternates brisk question-and-answer snippets with long, cumulative demonstrations that reward careful attention and annotation. Main value: a wealth of thought experiments for testing political and ethical intuitions. Main limitation: repetitive refutations, long policy sketches and dense metaphysical passages can feel abstruse and slow; patience and some philosophical background help.”
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