Dream Tales and Prose Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781512043303)

In the spring of 1878 there was living in Moscow, in a small wooden house in Shabolovka, a young man of five-and-twenty, called Yakov Aratov. With him lived his father's sister, an elderly maiden lady, over fifty, Platonida Ivanovna. She took charge of his house, and looked after his household expenditure, a task for which Aratov was utterly unfit. Other relations he had none. A few years previously, his father, a provincial gentleman of small property, had moved to Moscow together with him and Platonida Ivanovna, whom he always, however, called Platosha; her nephew, too, used the same name. On leaving the country-place where they had always lived up till then, the elder Aratov settled in the old capital, with the object of putting his son to the university, for which he had himself prepared him; he bought for a trifle a little house in one of the outlying streets, and established himself in it, with all his books and scientific odds and ends. And of books and odds and ends he had many-for he was a man of some considerable learning ... 'an out-and-out eccentric, ' as his neighbours said of him

Author: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
ISBN-10: 1512043303
ISBN-13: 9781512043303
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 05/08/2015
Pages: 130
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.28d