3.79 avg rating — 423 ratings

"philosophical, riveting, original"

4.11 avg rating — 19 ratings

"I wanted to know and understand"

3.78 avg rating — 6,706 ratings

"droll humour, insightful glimpse into early soviet reform"

3.79 avg rating — 1,288 ratings

"such black humour"

4.03 avg rating — 13,561 ratings

"'60s innovation at its best - the quest for truth in a sea of deception"

3.81 avg rating — 5,724 ratings

"Such an interesting, fresh author"

3.93 avg rating — 254 ratings

"loved the pace"

3.56 avg rating — 3,376 ratings

"a must for russian studies - one of the many foundation novels of revolutionary thinking"

3.97 avg rating — 19,797 ratings

"Gorky's descriptions of 19th c peasant life worth the trouble of trying to follow his thinking"

4.09 avg rating — 9,429 ratings

"I read this over 10yrs ago and still remember and laugh over his descriptions and observations"

4.01 avg rating — 105,983 ratings

"Turgeniev, subtle, pre-soviet, conflicted and beautiful. I love the spirit that infuses his writing"

3.96 avg rating — 9,313 ratings

"read carefully - so much to see and grasp"

4.28 avg rating — 448,917 ratings

"One of the most 'impactful' novels on my young self"

4.08 avg rating — 79,261 ratings

"Wonderful interpretation of early Soviet reform - the impact on the individual and society at large"

3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings

"What an imagination"

4.33 avg rating — 8,915 ratings

"Slow moving and meditative. I cried."

4.11 avg rating — 66,398 ratings

"In the spirit of romantic story telling - epic, Byronic - puts me in mind of dashing young hotheads"

4.01 avg rating — 105,502 ratings

"So much more than just a love story but monumental in its perception of people and society"

3.84 avg rating — 4,661 ratings

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4.19 avg rating — 79,106 ratings