Home of the Gentry

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2 ediciones

Home of the Gentry

Editorial: penguin_classics

ISBN: 978-01-4044-224-3

ISBN sin guiones: 9780140442243

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 208

Fecha de publicación: 2007-12-06

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

Home of the Gentry

Editorial: Penguin

ISBN: 978-01-4193-583-6

ISBN sin guiones: 9780141935836

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 208

Fecha de publicación: 2007-12-06

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

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Home of the Gentry

Iwan Turgieniew

Primera publicación: 2007-12-06

On one level the novel is about the homecoming of Lavretsky, who, broken and disillusioned by a failed marriage, returns to his estate and finds love again - only to lose it. The sense of loss and of unfulfilled promise, beautifully captured by Turgenev, reflects his underlying theme that humanity is not destined to experience happiness except as something ephemeral and inevitably doomed. On another level Turgenev is presenting the homecoming of a whole generation of young Russians who have fallen under the spell of European ideas that have uprooted them from Russia, their 'home', but have proved ultimately superfluous. In tragic bewilderment, they attempt to find reconciliation with their land.