Coming back to the nest of his family home in Russia after years of fruitless endeavours away from his roots, Lavretsky decides to turn his back on the vacuous salons of Paris and his frivolous and unfaithful wife Varvara Pavlovna. On his return he meets Liza, the daughter of one of his cousins, whom he had known when they were children and who rekindles in him long-smothered feelings of love. News of Varvara's death arrive from France, offering Lavretsky the prospect of a new life, but a cruel twist threatens to shatter his dreams and forces him to re-evaluate his plans.
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Coming back to the nest of his family home in Russia after years of fruitless endeavours away from his roots, Lavretsky decides to turn his back on...
Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) was one the best-known Russian novelists of the 19th century. Among his books, Fathers and Sons (1862) stands out as a masterpiece. Turgenevs shorter fiction was equally popular. Written in the late 1870s and early 1880s, his Poems in Prose are regarded as a classical example of what is now known as flash fiction. The translation has been carefully edited, and the almost always omitted story, "Threshold", which is regarded as one of Turgenevs best, reinstated to its rightful place.
Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) was one the best-known Russian novelists of the 19th century. Among his books, Fathers and Sons (1862) stands out as a maste...
