| A HOUSE OF GENTLEFOLK (Annotated) Contributor(s): Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798736439393 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $25.92 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2021 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Psychological |
| Physical Information: 0.42" H x 6" W x 9" (0.59 lbs) 196 pages |
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| Publisher Description: The name of the former was Marya Dmitrievna Kalitin. Her husband, a shrewd determined man of obstinate bilious temperament, had been dead for ten years. He had been a provincial public prosecutor, noted in his own day as a successful man of business. He had received a fair education and had been to the university; but having been born in narrow circumstances he realized early in life the necessity of pushing his own way in the world and making money. It had been a love-match on Marya Dmitrievna's side. He was not bad-looking, was clever and could be very agreeable when he chose. Marya Dmitrievna Pesto-that was her maiden name-had lost her parents in childhood. She spent some years in a boarding-school in Moscow, and after leaving school, lived on the family estate of Pokrovskoe, about forty miles from O--, with her aunt and her elder brother. |