num_pages: 240
description: Returning to Russia from a tour in Italy, twenty-three-year-old Dimitry Sanin breaks his journey in Frankfurt, where he encounters the beautiful Gemma Roselli, who works in her parents' patisserie, and falls deeply and deliriously in love for the first time. Convinced that nothing can come in the way of everlasting happiness with his fiancee, Dimitry impetuously decides to begin a new life and sell his Russian estates. But when he meets the potential buyer, the intriguing Madame Polozov, his youthful vulnerability makes him prey for a darker, destructive infatuation. A novel of haunting beauty, "Spring Torrents" (1870-1) is a fascinating, partly autobiographical account of one of Turgenev's favourite themes - a man's inability to love without losing his innocence and becoming enslaved to obsessive passions.
language: English
title: Spring Torrents
titlecomplete: Spring Torrents
characters: Maria Nikolaevna Polozova, Herr Klueber, Herr von Doenhof, Gemma Roselli, Ippolit Polozov, Emilio Roselli, Frau Lenore, Pantaleone, Dimitry Sanin, Herr von Richter
genres: Germany, Russia, Novels, Literature, Classic Literature, Russian Literature, Classics, Romance, Fiction, 19th Century
ratings_count: 4805
places: Frankfurt, Germany, Wiesbaden, Russia
publisher: Penguin