A House of Gentlefolk by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

"A House of Gentlefolk" by Ivan Turgenev is a novel published in January 1859. Fyodor Lavretsky returns to his family estate after discovering his wife's betrayal in Paris. There he falls in love with his cousin's devout daughter, Liza, who offers everything his unfaithful wife was not. When a newspaper reports his wife's death, Lavretsky and Liza confess their feelings for each other. But fate has other plans that will test their love and force them to confront impossible choices about duty, faith, and happiness. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, 1818-1883
Translator Garnett, Constance, 1861-1946
Title A House of Gentlefolk
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_of_the_Gentry
Credits L. Michelle Baker and David Widger
Reading Level Reading ease score: 78.2 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PG: Language and Literatures: Slavic (including Russian), Languages and Literature
Subject Russia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
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EBook-No. 5721
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Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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