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Liza
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Title: Liza "A nest of nobles"
Author: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Release Date: April 29, 2004 [EBook #12194]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
(Leisure Hour Series.)
FATHERS AND SONS. SMOKE. LIZA. ON THE EVE. DIMITRI ROUDINE. SPRING FLOODS; LEAR. VIRGIN SOIL. ANNALS OF A SPORTSMAN.
LEISURE HOUR SERIES
LIZA
OR
"A NEST OF NOBLES"
A NOVEL
BY IVAN S. TURGÉNIEFF
TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN
BY W.R.S. RALSTON
1873
DEDICATED TO THE AUTHOR BY HIS FRIEND THE TRANSLATOR.
PREFACE.
The author of the Dvoryanskoe Gnyezdo, or "Nest of Nobles," of which a translation is now offered to the English reader under the title of "Liza," is a writer of whom Russia may well be proud.[A] And that, not only because he is a consummate artist,--entitled as he is to take high rank among those of European fame, so accurate is he in his portrayal of character, and so quick to seize and to fix even its most fleeting expression; so vividly does he depict by a few rapid touches th