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Home of the GentryIntroduction of the ebook: Home of the Gentry
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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 noble 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. …more
Review ebook Home of the Gentry
Just another sad love story…maybe. But not as written by the Russian master, author Ivan Turgenev …a glimpse into the human mind, a dense jungle with meandering rivers flowing in different directions to who knows where, it ends someday. The plot, a wealthy , young, very inexperienced man Fyodor Ivanych Lavretsky, falls for a beautiful girl Varvara Pavlovna, the first woman he feels attractive to , marries for love, ( the father, a greedy, poor retired general, with a shady past, consents rap Just another sad love story…maybe. But not as written by the Russian master, author Ivan Turgenev …a glimpse into the human mind, a dense jungle with meandering rivers flowing in different directions to who knows where, it ends someday. The plot, a wealthy , young, very inexperienced man Fyodor Ivanych Lavretsky, falls for a beautiful girl Varvara Pavlovna, the first woman he feels attractive to , marries for love, ( the father, a greedy, poor retired general, with a shady past, consents rapidly, wonder why? ) she adores… money, in mid 19th century Saint Petersburg, the capital, of the Russian Empire. An unexpected, at an early age landowner , inherited estates from cold, uncaring, miserable relatives , that showed no affection, especially his disinterested father, to busy stealing from people , couldn’t be bothered , the useless brat was unimportant, the meek, peasant mother, had died a few years after his birth, the young, lonely boy suffered in silence. The restless lady, soon after the wedding gets Fyodor away from the dull (and even duller mate), life of country living, to the glamorous city of lights, Paris, the wife wants to have fun. Varvara quickly meets men that attract her, she spreads her charms around generously, the silly husband, a real dud in comparison, is always reading voraciously, no joy there. Yet even a trusting blind man will discover the truth, it wouldn’t set him free, nevertheless he departs leaving his little daughter too , a reminder of his big mistake, back to mother Russia and face the quite embarrassed relatives bravely, after eight wasted years abroad, gloom and despair , are in the air his face shows, life has passed him by. UNTIL SEEING his second cousin, a kind, understanding, lovely girl of 19, Lisa, her mother , his cousin does not approve, the annoyed Marya Dmitriyevna Kalitin, has a better , more suitable candidate, Vladimir Nikolaich Panshin, 28, ( don’t you love Russian names ?) . A government official in the Interior Department, on his way up, so he’s a dilettante, no problem, their nasty aunt Marfa Timofeyevna Pestova, forecasts complete disaster, still the married Feyodor is only 35, visits them everyday, in the provincial town of O (Oryol) , rumors give hope, rashness has no bounds, emotions are all, but reality strikes again. Can a person have two chances for happiness, a rarity on Earth. A passionate narrative, romantic with adults acting , childish, yet love has made many in history do the same and undoubtedly will repeat this pattern in the future, gripped in the powerful strains of the heart, nothing else matters to those involved… …more
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