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On the Eve

Name: On the Eve
Author: Ivan Turgenev

Ivan TurgenevOriginal title Накануне (Russian, 1860)

On the Eve is the third novel by Russian writer Ivan Turgenev. It has elements of social comedy but fell foul of radical critics who advocated the need of more overt reform.

“There was a time,' Nikolai Artemyevitch resumed, 'when daughters did not allow themselves to look down on their parents—when the parental authority forced the disobedient to tremble. That time has passed, unhappily: so at least many persons imagine; but let me tell you, there are still laws which do not permit—do not permit—in fact there are still laws. I beg you to mark that: there are still laws”

Ivan Turgenev book On the Eve

Source: On the Eve (1860), Ch. 30.

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