Spring Torrents

Returning to Russia from a tour in Italy, twenty-three-year-old Dimitry Sanin breaks his journey in Frankfurt. There, he encounters the beautiful Gemma Roselli, who works in her parents' patisserie, and falls deeply and deliriously in love for the first time. Convinced that nothing can come in the way of everlasting happiness with his fiancee, Dimitry impetuously decides to begin a new life and sell his Russian estates. But when he meets the potential buyer, the intriguing Madame Polozov, his youthful vulnerability makes him prey for a darker, destructive infatuation. A novel of haunting beauty, "Spring Torrents" (1870-1) is a fascinating, partly autobiographical account of one of Turgenev's favourite themes - a man's inability to love without losing his innocence and becoming enslaved to obsessive passions.

ISBN 014044369X   Pages 240 ISBN13 9780140443691 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd   Weight (grammes) 183 Imprint Penguin Classics   Language English Format Paperback   Published in London Publication date 31 Jan 1980   Series title Classics S. Translator Leonard Shapiro   Height (mm) 198 Writer of introduction Shapiro, Leonard   Width (mm) 129 Library of Congress PG3421.V5   Spine width (mm) 14 DEWEY 891.733   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC21

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