Classic Novels Library

Description

"A House of Gentlefolk" by Ivan Turgenev is a novel published in January 1859. Fyodor Lavretsky returns to his family estate after discovering his wife's betrayal in Paris. There he falls in love with his cousin's devout daughter, Liza, who offers everything his unfaithful wife was not. When a newspaper reports his wife's death, Lavretsky and Liza confess their feelings for each other. But fate has other plans that will test their love and force them to confront impossible choices about duty, faith, and happiness. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Class:PG: Language and Literatures: Slavic (including Russian), Languages and Literature