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Home of the Gentlefolk

Author
Ivan Turgenev
Series
World Classics
Language
English
Length
180 pages
ISBN
9781910150023
Published
15 December 2013
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, and love that arrives too late for the life around it. Turgenev’s Home of the Gentlefolk is gentry manners under pressure: duty, music, a woman’s choice, the quiet violence of a class that still thinks the house will stand. Lyrical, exact, and unsparing about what tradition costs. Lavretsky’s return is not a triumph. Turgenev writes the pause between a man’s hope and a household’s rules, with music in the next room and history already packing a trunk.

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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