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Title	:	Home of the Gentry
Author	:	Ivan Turgenev
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 298 pages
Published	:	December 6th 2007 by Penguin Classics (first published 1859)
Categories	:	Cultural. Russia. Classics. Fiction. Literature. Russian Literature

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"Home of the Gentry" is a novel by Ivan Turgenev published in the January 1859 issue of "Sovremennik". It was enthusiastically received by the Russian society and remained his least controversial and most widely-read novel until the end of the 19th century. It was turned into a movie by Andrey Konchalovsky in 1969. The novel's protagonist is Fyodor Ivanych Lavretsky, a nobleman who shares many traits with Turgenev. The child of a distant, Anglophile father and a serf mother who dies when he is very young, Lavretsky is brought up at his family's country estate home by a severe maiden aunt, often thought to be based on Turgenev's own mother who was known for her cruelty.

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Original Title:	Дворянское гнездо
ISBN:	0140442243 (ISBN13: 9780140442243)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Fyodor Ivanovych Lavretsky, Elizaveta Mikhaylovna, Vladimir Nikolaich Panshin, Marya Dmitrievna Kalitin, Marfa Timofeyevna Pestov, Christopher Theodore Gottlieb Lemm, Varvara Pavlovna Lavretsky, Glafira Petrovna, Sergey Petrovich Gedeonovsky, Mikhalevich, Elena Mikhaylovna, Agafya Vlasyevna
Setting:	Russia,1842

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It's quite short, yet the main characters are so well-drawn, I was really rooting for them. Secondary characters felt a little like caricatures, but it wasn't a drawback in this case. Everybody served their purpose. And, oh my, the descriptions! Turgenev describes the feelings of falling in love like no other.

I've realized what it is that I like about Turgenev. Granted, his books are all pretty much the same (though this is a charge you could aim at a lot of writers) and kind of predictable, yet there's just something really enjoyable about reading them. There's a sort of gentleness and kindness, tempered by a sadness, that pervades them, plus he has a lovely prose style. I don't think he's necessarily ever written an all-time classic, yet I find myself reading him more often than other writers who I

Originally published on my blog here in May 1998.This is the novel which made Turgenev's name outside Russia. The Russian title, Dvoranskoye gnezdo, has connotations of "Nest" rather than "Home", but there isn't really an easy way to translate that into English. The novel is really about Russia, perhaps even more so than is the case with most Russian novels. It deals with the relationship between the aristocracy and the land, and the way that the true Russian returns to his native country, no

13 APR 2014 -- A quiet short story which seems to have much to say. 19 APR 2014 -- now that the backstory is complete, the story is more interesting. Yesterday, Good Friday, I accomplished no reading. Today, Saturday, I am likely to finish the story. The Boy is meeting up with friends for an afternoon of paintball revelry. I will have a few hours with nothing to do but read whilst waiting for him. Tough; isn't it? 19 APR 2014 -- another big thanks to both Dagny and Karen for introducing me to

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Imported from tablet:A House of Gentlefolk aka Home of the GentryTranslator: Constance GarnettLIST OF CHARACTERS Marya Dmitrievna Kalitin, a widow. Marfa Timofyevna Pestov, her aunt. Sergei Petrovitch Gedeonovsky, a state councillor. Fedor Ivanitch Lavretsky, kinsman of Marya. Elisaveta Mihalovna (Lisa), daughters of Marya. Lenotchka, Shurotchka, an orphan girl, ward of Marfa. Nastasya Karpovna Ogarkoff, dependent of Marfa. Vladimir Nikolaitch Panshin, of the Ministry of the Interior.

First of all, the title is bit misleading. The home of the gentry is but a backdrop for an unsuccessful love story, with an underlying theme well expressed by the novel's eccentric heroine Liza - 'happiness on earth does not depend on us'. I was expecting a more detailed and upfront treatment of class distinctions, ideologies, etc of the novel's period.The story takes off quite slowly with the hero returning to his ancestral home after an unsuccessful marriage (his wife is philandering in