| A House of Gentlefolk by Ivan Turgenev, Fiction, Classics, Literary Contributor(s): Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich (Author), Garnett, Constance (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1592246583 ISBN-13: 9781592246588 Publisher: Wildside Press OUR PRICE: $29.66 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2003 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: This is the quintessential Turgenev novel of fading Russian nobility set against the backdrop of an era on the brink of the revolution. Just as he has committed himself to marry an innocent woman, Lavretsky is faced with a fallen woman from his past. What follows is heartbreak, in classic Russian style. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.42" W x 9.34" (1.32 lbs) 264 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A HOUSE OF GENTLEFOLK (1858) by Ivan Sergyevich Turgenev (1818-1883) is the quintessential Turgenev novel of fading Russian nobility, idealistic innocence and disillusionment, against the backdrop of a changing era on the brink of the revolution. Just as he has committed himself to marry an innocent idealistic young woman, Lavretsky is faced with the fallen woman from his past. What follows is heartbreak, in classic Russian style. |
Contributor Bio(s): Garnett, Constance: - "Constance Clara Garnett (née Black; 1861 - 1946) was an English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature. Garnett was one of the first English translators of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Anton Chekhov and introduced them on a wide basis to the English-speaking public." |