The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Novellas: New Translation: Newly Translated and Annotated - Also Includes 'Asya' and 'First Love'

by Ivan Turgenev and Isabel Florence Hapgood

Book Overview

Driven to his deathbed by an incurable disease, the thirty-year-old impoverished gentleman Chulkaturin decides to write a diary looking back on his short life. After describing his youthful disillusionment and his family's fall from grace and loss of status, the narrative focuses on his love for Liza, the daughter of a senior civil servant, his rivalry with the dashing Prince N. and his ensuing humiliation. These pages helped establish the archetype...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847497624
• ISBN13: 9781847497628
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Alma Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 7.7"