Antonina (European Classics)
Contributors: Jehanne Gheith (Introduction); Michael R. Katz (Translator)
Edition: Translated edition
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: December 30, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 153
ISBN-13: 9780810114074
Subjects: Modern fiction; Love stories; Russian Novel And Short Story; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Fiction; Women; Russia (Federation); General; Fiction / Literary; Family
Description: 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.