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Home of the Gentlefolk

Author
Ivan Turgenev
Read by
James Harrington
Language
English
Length
6 hours 3 minutes
ISBN
9781802561135
Published
18 October 2024
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Russian gentry
  • societal expectations
  • love
  • social conventions
  • duty
  • desire
  • tradition
  • progress
  • generations
  • marriage

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A Russian estate, a returning man, love that arrives too late. Turgenev’s Home of the Gentlefolk, unabridged English: gentry manners under pressure, duty, music, a woman’s choice. Lavretsky’s return is not a triumph. Hear the pause between a man’s hope and a household’s rules, history already packing a trunk. Lyrical, exact, unsparing about what tradition costs. The next room has a piano; the house still thinks it will stand. A novel of unused time, spoken at the temperature of a late summer.

Author

Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883) grew up on a wealthy Russian estate, studied at the universities of Moscow, St Petersburg, and Berlin, and later settled largely in France. A Sportsman's Sketches revealed the intelligence and dignity of serfs through apparently effortless country scenes; Fathers and Sons caught the rift between liberal parents and their impatient, nihilist heirs.

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