Penguin Books, 1974. Soft cover. Good. 208 pages, with introduction and notes. Reprint of edition published 1970. Turgenev's second novel, 1859, a romance set amid the tensions arising from "westernizing" influences in mid-19th century Russia. Mass-market paperback, wraps rubbed along spine and lightly shelf-worn, edges age-tanned and foxed/stained, water stain about 1.5" at bottom corner left pages a little wavy, page margins age-toned. Two handwritten page-reference notes on last page of book, one margin note correcting a word in the translation.

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Bookseller: Berthoff Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: AEB-400
Title: Home of the Gentry
Author: Ivan Turgenev, tr. Richard Freeborn
Format/Binding: Soft cover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0140442243
ISBN 13: 9780140442243
Publisher: Penguin Books
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1974
Keywords: PENGUIN CLASSICS, NOVEL. 19TH CENTURY RUSSIA
Bookseller catalogs: Russian and Soviet literature;

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Berthoff Books sells books previously owned by the late Warner B. Berthoff, Professor of English and American Literature, emeritus, at Harvard University, and members of his family. Some books contain marginalia by Warner Berthoff, the late Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (U. Mass-Boston, English composition and rhetoric), or others, which we aim to describe accurately. Our inventory features English and American fiction and poetry, 20th-century literary criticism, world literature, history, and philosophy. Other categories are history and politics of Australia, Asia, South Africa and the Middle East; intelligence agencies and gnostic beliefs; Russian literature and criticism; and Russian and Soviet history.

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