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- Under 100
- First published
- 1922
- Pages
- 170
About this book
Gerhardie drew on his own upbringing among the English community in Russia to tell a wry, aching story of love and drift. His Anglo-Russian narrator keeps returning to the sprawling Bursanov household, and to Nina, one of three sisters he cannot quite win, while revolution gathers offstage and money, promises, and hangers-on pile up around the family. The mood owes much to Chekhov: comedy and sadness sit side by side, and nothing resolves the way anyone hopes. Admired by Katherine Mansfield and later by Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene, it catches a vanishing world with light, unsentimental precision.
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Book facts
- Author
- William Gerhardie
- First published
- 1922
- Reading time
- About 4 hours
- Pages
- 170
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Comedy
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online