Join us for this month's Online Reading Group, where we will be reading Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev. 

Fathers and Sons explores the timeless conflict between generations through a period in Russian history when a new generation of revolutionary intellectuals threatened the state. Returning home after years away at university, Arkady is proud to introduce his clever friend Bazarov to his father and uncle. But their guest soon stirs up unrest on the quiet country estate – his outspoken nihilist views and his scathing criticisms of the older men expose the growing distance between Arkady and his father. And when Bazarov visits his own doting but old-fashioned parents, his disdainful rejection of traditional Russian life causes even further distress.

In Fathers and Sons, Turgenev created a beautifully-drawn and highly influential portrayal of generational conflict, at a time just before the end of serfdom, when the refined yet vanishing landowning class was being overturned by a brash new breed of youthful radicals – offering modern-day readers much to reflect upon as they look around at their own tumultuous, ever changing world.