Ivan Turgenev
Paperback | Pages: 298 pages Rating: 3.92 | 3300 Users | 164 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Дворянское гнездо |
| ISBN: | 0140442243 (ISBN13: 9780140442243) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Fyodor Ivanovych Lavretsky, Elizaveta Mikhaylovna, Vladimir Nikolaich Panshin, Marya Dmitrievna Kalitin, Marfa Timofeyevna Pestov, Christopher Theodore Gottlieb Lemm, Varvara Pavlovna Lavretsky, Glafira Petrovna, Sergey Petrovich Gedeonovsky, Mikhalevich, Elena Mikhaylovna, Agafya Vlasyevna |
| Setting: | Russia,1842 |
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"Home of the Gentry" 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 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.List Containing Books Home of the Gentry
| Title | : | Home of the Gentry |
| Author | : | Ivan Turgenev |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 298 pages |
| Published | : | December 6th 2007 by Penguin Classics (first published 1859) |
| Categories | : | Cultural. Russia. Classics. Fiction. Literature. Russian Literature |
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Ratings: 3.92 From 3300 Users | 164 ReviewsAssess Containing Books Home of the Gentry
***Warning - this might contain spoilers***This is my first encounter with Turgenev and I was impressed, although I admit I expected it. Turgenev is, first of all, a russian, so there is this imprint of a profound and meaningful attachment to his nation, its people, its nature and spiritual life, tangible in his writing. His likeminded characters, serious yet sensible (Lavretski and Liza) are the main focus of the story, while their "opposing" secondaries (Varvara and Pansin) are almost theOriginally published on my blog here in May 1998.This is the novel which made Turgenev's name outside Russia. The Russian title, Dvoranskoye gnezdo, has connotations of "Nest" rather than "Home", but there isn't really an easy way to translate that into English. The novel is really about Russia, perhaps even more so than is the case with most Russian novels. It deals with the relationship between the aristocracy and the land, and the way that the true Russian returns to his native country, no
"There are such moments in life, such feelings... One can but point to themand pass by." (203)
Ivan Turgenev is one of my favorite authors. For some reason, he stands small next to those other giants of Russian literature. At the bookstore here, there's almost a whole shelf devoted to Tolstoy, to Dostoevsky. There's not a single book by Turgenev, not even Father's and Sons. Like them his novels are books of ideas, they're philosophical, political---but they're SHORT. While I'm all for diving into a 1,000 page tome, that requires an energy I don't always have. Turgenev's books are quick,
Turgenev has a very specific artistic temperament full of sympathy and humanity, and this book, despite several odd features, has an incredible emotive power, as he sees into the hearts of his characters with deep clarity. Powerful and stirring scenes, and a realism and honesty which to me makes Turgenev a truly great writer.
Great novel, moving and engaging.
Rather interesting than captivating. After 50 pages it was quite predictable he will fall for her and for a while I had the feeling I was reading the Russian version of "Pride and prejudice", but thank goodness it wasn't so. I am a fan of happy endings but I swear, if this one ended happily I wouldn't have read Turgenev again.Turgenev has an interesting way of setting his work, maybe I'll get into details after finishing Fathers and Sons.***Interesting fact: in 1979, a Russian discovered an
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