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On the Eve
On the Eve
Author: Ivan Turgenev, Stepan Apresyan (Translator)
Set in 1853, On The Eve is a novel about a young aristocratic woman, Elena, who falls in love with a Bulgarian revolutionary, Insarov, on the eve of the Crimean War. — Though essentially a love story with a historical background, On the Eve hints in its title at social and political implications which no Russian reader could miss when it...  more »
ISBN-13: 9785050024510
ISBN-10: 505002451X
Publication Date: 1989
Pages: 173
Edition: New Ed
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Publisher: Raduga Publisher,C.I.S.
Book Type: Hardcover
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Faced with the tantalising choice of the most nearly perfect of Turgenev's novels, few readers would hesitate to give pride of place to On The Eve. In this tender yet tragic story of the fate of a young revolutionary, Turgenev succeeded in reconciling the conflicting impulses of love and duty.


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