Liza or a Nest of Nobles
Liza or a Nest of Nobles

Author: Ivan S. Turgénieff

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-09-27

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 3368195425

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

Liza; Or, "A Nest of Nobles"
Liza; Or,

Author: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-12-17

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13:

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A Nest of the Gentlefolk, A Nest of the Gentry and Liza, is a novel by Ivan Turgenev published in the January 1859 issue of Sovremennik. Upon returning to Russia, educated nobleman Fyodor Ivanych Lavretsky visits his cousin, Marya Dmitrievna Kalitina, who lives with her two daughters, Liza and Lenochka. Lavretsky is immediately drawn to Liza, whose serious nature and religious devotion stand in contrast to the coquettish Varvara Pavlovna's social consciousness. Lavretsky realizes that he is falling in love with Liza, and when he reads in a foreign journal that Varvara Pavlovna has died, he confesses his love to her and learns that she loves him in return.

Home of the Gentry
Home of the Gentry

Author: Ivan Turgenev

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2007-12-06

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0141935839

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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.