Home of the Gentlefolk

A Russian estate, a returning man, love that arrives too late. Turgenev's Home of the Gentlefolk, unabridged English: gentry manners under pressure, duty, music, a woman's choice. Lavretsky's return is not a triumph. Hear the pause between a man's hope and a household's rules, history already packing a trunk. Lyrical, exact, unsparing about what tradition costs. The next room has a piano; the house still thinks it will stand. A novel of unused time, spoken at the temperature of a late summer.