num_pages: 153
description: Patterned on the novels of the Brontë sisters, Antonina is a poignant account of a young Russian whose life is shaped by the cruel neglect of her stepparents, the financial ruin of her father and husband, and--the centerpiece of the novel--her failed love affair with a sensitive but weak young man.
language: English
title: Antonina
titlecomplete: Antonina (European Classics)
genres: Fiction, Classics, Russia, Russian Literature
ratings_count: 58
publisher: Northwestern University Press