num_pages: 93
description: Set in Russia during the winter of 1916, Serezha visits his married sister. Tired after a long journey, he falls into a restless sleep and half-remembers, half-dreams the incidents of the last summer of peace before the First World War 'when life appeared to pay heed to individuals'. As tutor in a wealthy, unsettled Moscow household he focuses his intense romanticism on Mrs Arild, his employer's paid companion, while spending his nights with the prostitute Sashka.
language: English
title: Modern Classics Last Summer
titlecomplete: Modern Classics Last Summer
genres: Fiction, Russian Literature, 20th Century, Classics, Russia, Historical Fiction, Literature
ratings_count: 265
publisher: Penguin Books