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On one level the novel is about the homecoming of Lavretsky, who, broken and disillusioned by a failed marriage, returns to his estate and finds love again - only to lose it. The sense of loss and of unfulfilled promise, beautifully captured by Turgenev, reflects his underlying... Read Full Overview

Aquel claro d a de primavera llegaba al ocaso. Muy alto, en el cielo, ve anse ligeras nubes ros ceas que, m s que cernerse destacando sobre la tierra, parec an como confundidas con la inmensidad azul. Junto a la ventana abierta de una linda casa situada en el extrarradio de O...,... Read Full Overview

Coming back to the "nest" of his family home in Russia after years of fruitless endeavours away from his roots, Lavretsky decides to turn his back on the vacuous salons of Paris and his frivolous and unfaithful wife Varvara Pavlovna. On his return he meets Liza, the daughter... Read Full Overview

Home of the Gentry, also translated as A House of Gentlefolk, is a novel by Ivan Turgenev published in the January 1859 issue of Sovremennik. It was enthusiastically received by the Russian society and remained his least controversial and most widely read novel until the end... Read Full Overview

The author of the Dvoryanskoe Gnyezdo, or "Nest of Nobles," of which a translation is now offered to the English reader under the title of "Liza," is a writer of whom Russia may well be proud.

Aquel claro d a de primavera llegaba al ocaso. Muy alto, en el cielo, ve anse ligeras nubes ros ceas que, m s que cernerse destacando sobre la tierra, parec an como confundidas con la inmensidad azul. Junto a la ventana abierta de una linda casa situada en el extrarradio de O...,... Read Full Overview

Apr s un bonheur incomplet, mensonger, qu'il v cut avec sa femme, et la s paration douloureuse qui s'en suivit, Lavretzky apprend la mort de celle-ci. Il rencontre Lise. Trouvera t-il enfin le bonheur aupr s d'elle? Ce roman figure parmi les plus achev s de l'auteur sur le plan... Read Full Overview

Un ya maduro hidalgo ruso, enga ado por su esposa, se enamora de su prima Lisa, joven, hermosa y c ndida, que se prenda de l. Corre el rumor de la muerte de su esposa y l alienta la esperanza del amor; pero la supuesta difunta se presenta a reclamar, con hip crita mansedumbre,... Read Full Overview

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (9 November [O.S. 28 October] 1818 - 3 September [O.S. 22 August] 1883) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West.

His first major publication, a short... Read Full Overview

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A House of Gentlefolk is a novel by Ivan Turgenev published in the January 1859 issue of "Sovremennik". It was enthusiastically received by the Russian society and remained his most widely-read novel until the end of the 19th century. Turgenev wrote the novel shortly after his... Read Full Overview

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Liza By Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, W.R.S. Ralston