Antonina

by Tur, Evgeniya; Katz, Michael R.

• ISBN13: 9780810114074
• ISBN10: 0810114070
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-12-01
• Publisher: Northwestern Univ Pr

Summary

Antonina is a poignant account of a young Russian woman whose life is shaped by the cruel neglect of her stepparents, the financial ruin of her father and later her husband, and - the centerpiece of the novel - her failed love affair with a sensitive but weak young man. This work is a previously untranslated section of a four-volume novel, The Niece, published in Russia in 1851. Patterned after the successful contemporary novels of the Bronte sisters - in fact, Tur names one character after the town of Millcote in Jane Eyre - Antonina was praised by another great nineteenth-century writer, Ivan Turgenev. Jehanne Gheith addresses the novel's continuing appeal in her illuminating introduction.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii	(30)
Translator's Note	xxxvii	(2)
List of Characters	xxxix
ANTONINA	1	(146)
Notes	147	(2)
Excerpt from a Review	149	(4)
Ivan Turgenev
Selected Bibliography	153