A House of Gentlefolk by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
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"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 |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 5721 |
| Release Date | May 1, 2004 |
| Last Update | Oct 4, 2025 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 699 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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