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Spring Torrents

Ivan Turgenev, Leonard Shapiro

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Returning to Russia from Italy, twenty-three-year-old Dimitry Sanin breaks his journey in Frankfurt. There, he encounters the beautiful Gemma Roselli and falls in love. He decides to begin a new life and sell his Russian estates. But when he meets the potential buyer, Madame Polozov, his vulnerability makes him prey for a destructive infatuation.

Returning to Russia from a tour in Italy, twenty-three-year-old Dimitry Sanin breaks his journey in Frankfurt. There he encounters the beautiful Gemma Roselli, who works in her parents' patisserie, and falls deeply and deliriously in love for the first time. Convinced that nothing can come in the way of everlasting happiness with his fiancee, Dimitry impetuously decides to begin a new life and sell his Russian estates. But when he meets the potential buyer, the intriguing Madame Polozov, his youthful vulnerability makes him prey for a darker, destructive infatuation. A novel of haunting beauty, Spring Torrents (1870-1) is a fascinating, partly autobiographical account of one of Turgenev's favourite themes - a man's inability to love without losing his innocence and becoming enslaved to obsessive passions.

Format:
Paperback / softback
Pages:
240
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN:
9780140443691
Published Date:
31/1/1980
Dimensions:
199mm x 133mm x 14mm
Weight:
178g
Category:
Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

RRP: £12.99

Format: Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9780140443691


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