Antonina

by Evgeniya Tur, Michael R. Katz (Translator), Jehanne Gheith (Introduction)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780810114074
Publisher:	Northwestern University Press
Publication date:	12/30/1996
Series:	European Classics
Edition description:	Translated
Pages:	153
Product dimensions:	5.12(w) x 7.75(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

EVGENIYA TUR (1815-1892) was the author of numerous prose pieces and a series of popular children's books. Eveniya Tur (the pseudonym of Elizaveta Sailhas de Tournemire, 1815-92) is considered by many to be the foremost Russian woman writer of her era. 

MICHAEL R. KATZ, chair of the Department of Slavic Languages at the University of Texas at Austin, is the translator of Polinka Saks and The Story of Aleksei Dmitrich by Alexander Druzhinin and Prologue by Nikolai Chernyshevsky, both published by Northwestern University Press. Jehanne Gheith is assistant professor in the Department of Slavic Languages at Duke University; she also teaches in the Women's Studies Program. 

Table of Contents

Introduction
Translator's Note
List of Characters
Antonina
Notes
Excerpt from a Review by Ivan Turgenev
Selected Bibliography

Editorial Reviews

"A welcome addition to the small but growing fund of Russian women's fiction in translation." —Choice

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