Antonina /
Antonina is a poignant account of a young Russian woman whose life is shaped by the cruel neglect of her stepparents, the financial ruin of her father and later her husband, and - the centerpiece of the novel - her failed love affair with a sensitive but weak young man. This work is a previously unt...
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| Format: | Bog |
| Sprog: | English Russian |
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Evanston, Ill. :
Northwestern University Press,
c1996.
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| Serier: | European classics (Evanston, Ill.)
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| Summary: | Antonina is a poignant account of a young Russian woman whose life is shaped by the cruel neglect of her stepparents, the financial ruin of her father and later her husband, and - the centerpiece of the novel - her failed love affair with a sensitive but weak young man. This work is a previously untranslated section of a four-volume novel, The Niece, published in Russia in 1851. Patterned after the successful contemporary novels of the Bronte sisters - in fact, Tur names one character after the town of Millcote in Jane Eyre - Antonina was praised by another great nineteenth-century writer, Ivan Turgenev. Jehanne Gheith addresses the novel's continuing appeal in her illuminating introduction. |
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| Emne beskrivelse: | Vol. 3 of author's Plemiannitsa published in Moscow (1851) and also under the title Antonina in the almanac "Kometa" (1851). |
| Fysisk beskrivelse: | xxxix, 153 p. ; 20 cm. |
| Bibliografi: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 153). |
| ISBN: | 0810114070 (pbk : alk. paper) |