A Nobleman's Nest by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

"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. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, 1818-1883
Translator Hapgood, Isabel Florence, 1850-1928
Title A Nobleman's Nest
Note Translation of: Dvorianskoe gnezdo.
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 Russia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Subject Russian fiction -- Translations into English
Category Text
eBook-No. 25771
Release Date
Last Update Jan 3, 2021
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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