Status Updates From Отцы и дети

FIRST LINE: “Well, Piotr? Still nothing in sight?” asked a gentleman on the 20th of May, 1859, as he came out in the porch of the stage-coach inn on the road to ———.

I was fully prepared to sit this one through simply for the purpose of reading one of the first “modern” russian novels. What I was not expecting was to be completely and utterly mesmerized by the story, characters, and writing. This is incredible.