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A review by lnatal
Virgin Soil by Constance Garnett, Ivan Turgenev
4.0
Free download available at Project Gutenberg.
Opening lines:
AT one o'clock in the afternoon of a spring day in the year 1868, a young man of twenty-seven, carelessly and shabbily dressed, was toiling up the back staircase of a five-storied house on Officers Street in St. Petersburg. Noisily shuffling his down-trodden goloshes and slowly swinging his heavy, clumsy figure, the man at last reached the very top flight and stopped before a half-open door hanging off its hinges. He did not ring the bell, but gave a loud sigh and walked straight into a small, dark passage.
4* On the Eve
4* Fathers and Sons
3* Spring Torrents
2* A Lear of the Steppes
4* Virgin Soil
TR A House of Gentlefolk
TR First Love
TR The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories
TR Sketches from a Hunter's Album
TR A Tour in the Forest
Opening lines:
AT one o'clock in the afternoon of a spring day in the year 1868, a young man of twenty-seven, carelessly and shabbily dressed, was toiling up the back staircase of a five-storied house on Officers Street in St. Petersburg. Noisily shuffling his down-trodden goloshes and slowly swinging his heavy, clumsy figure, the man at last reached the very top flight and stopped before a half-open door hanging off its hinges. He did not ring the bell, but gave a loud sigh and walked straight into a small, dark passage.
4* On the Eve
4* Fathers and Sons
3* Spring Torrents
2* A Lear of the Steppes
4* Virgin Soil
TR A House of Gentlefolk
TR First Love
TR The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories
TR Sketches from a Hunter's Album
TR A Tour in the Forest