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Title	:	Home of the Gentry
Author	:	Ivan Turgenev
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe 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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Just another sad love story...maybe. But not as written by the Russian master, author Ivan Turgenev ...a glimpse into the human mind, a dense jungle with meandering rivers flowing in different directions to who knows where, it ends someday. The plot, a wealthy , young, very inexperienced man Fyodor Ivanych Lavretsky, falls for a beautiful girl Varvara Pavlovna, the first woman he feels attractive to , marries for love, ( the father, a greedy, poor retired general, with a shady past, consents

Turgenev has a very specific artistic temperament full of sympathy and humanity, and this book, despite several odd features, has an incredible emotive power, as he sees into the hearts of his characters with deep clarity. Powerful and stirring scenes, and a realism and honesty which to me makes Turgenev a truly great writer.

At first I really thought that maybe I won't like it as I'm not a fan of russian literature/historical fiction but Turgenev did a really great job. The plot is simple and easy to read with pleasure.

oh, those wacky gentry

Ivan Turgenev is one of my favorite authors. For some reason, he stands small next to those other giants of Russian literature. At the bookstore here, there's almost a whole shelf devoted to Tolstoy, to Dostoevsky. There's not a single book by Turgenev, not even Father's and Sons. Like them his novels are books of ideas, they're philosophical, political---but they're SHORT. While I'm all for diving into a 1,000 page tome, that requires an energy I don't always have. Turgenev's books are quick,

Contemplative and slow paced, but I loved it. Dostoevsky called Liza the only comparable heroine in Russian literature to Tatiana in "Onegin", in terms of her purity of soul and truthfulness of spirit, and I wholeheartedly agree. A wonderful display of Russian virtues and values as defined in the 19th century.

Turgenev at his best. Beautifully rendered prose with the most penetrating descriptions of both his characters and the world they inhabit.