Rudin

Ivan Turgenev

⏱ 8 minRussian classic

A brilliant, eloquent talker dazzles a country house with his soaring ideals, but proves hollow when a woman offers him her love, and dies at last, gallant and useless, on a Paris barricade. Turgenev's superfluous man.

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