Fathers and Sons. By Ivan Turgenev. Translated by Constance Garnett. Illustrations by Elaine Raphael and Don Bolognese. Illustrated Edition. Franklin Library. Franklin Center, 1984.

Fathers and Sons is one of the most acclaimed Russian novels of the nineteenth century.  It is a character study across generations whose members hold opposing nihilistic and traditionalist worldviews. For Fathers and Sons, first published in Moscow in  1862, Ivan Turgenev is often credited with establishing Russian realism alongside Nicolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Leo Tolstoy. This Illustrated Edition includes full-page pen and ink drawings by Elaine Raphael and Don Bolognese.

This illustrated edition is in very good condition. In the original black faux leather boards, fine with gilt stamping. Raised bands. Gilt edges. Text block very good with only rubbing to gilt edges and minor dampstaining to top edges.

A very good collector’s copy of Fathers and Sons.