Free Flipbooks · Russian Literature
"A Nobleman's Nest" by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev is a novel published in 1859. Fyodor Lavretsky returns to his Russian estate after discovering his wife's betrayal in Paris. There, he falls in love with his cousin's daughter, Liza, a devoutly religious young woman. When news arrives that his wife has died, they confess their feelings for each other. But fate intervenes, forcing both to confront impossible choices between love, duty, and personal redemption in nineteenth-century Russian society. ... Read more
About this eBook
| Author | Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, 1818-1883 |
|---|---|
| Translator | Hapgood, Isabel Florence, 1850-1928 |
| Title | A Nobleman's Nest |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_of_the_Gentry |
| Credits | Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 68.6 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PG: Language and Literatures: Slavic (including Russian), Languages and Literature |
| Subject | Russian fiction -- Translations into English |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 25771 |
| Release Date | Jun 12, 2008 |
| Last Update | Jan 3, 2021 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1268 downloads in the last 30 days. |
Original page: gutenberg.org/ebooks/25771