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Home of the Gentry

Ivan Turgenev
3.92/5 (2785 ratings)
Home of the Gentry is a novel by Ivan Turgenev published in the January 1859 issue of "Sovremennik". I t was enthusiastically received by the Russian society and remained his least controversial and most widely-read novel until the end of the 19th century. It was turned into a movie by Andrey Konchalovsky in 1969.

The novel's protagonist is Fyodor Ivanych Lavretsky, a nobleman who shares many traits with Turgenev. The child of a distant, Anglophile father and a serf mother who dies when he is very young, Lavretsky is brought up at his family's country estate home by a severe maiden aunt, often thought to be based on Turgenev's own mother who was known for her cruelty.
Format:
Pages:
208 pages
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Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0140442243
ISBN13:
9780140442243
kindle Asin:
B002RI9DJM

Home of the Gentry

Ivan Turgenev
3.92/5 (2785 ratings)
Home of the Gentry is a novel by Ivan Turgenev published in the January 1859 issue of "Sovremennik". I t was enthusiastically received by the Russian society and remained his least controversial and most widely-read novel until the end of the 19th century. It was turned into a movie by Andrey Konchalovsky in 1969.

The novel's protagonist is Fyodor Ivanych Lavretsky, a nobleman who shares many traits with Turgenev. The child of a distant, Anglophile father and a serf mother who dies when he is very young, Lavretsky is brought up at his family's country estate home by a severe maiden aunt, often thought to be based on Turgenev's own mother who was known for her cruelty.
Format:
Pages:
208 pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0140442243
ISBN13:
9780140442243
kindle Asin:
B002RI9DJM