A Month In The Country: A Comedy In Five Acts
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Few works in the Russian dramatic canon capture the ache of suppressed desire as acutely as Ivan Turgenev's A Month in the Country. Set on a languid Russian country estate in the 1840s, the play chronicles the emotional upheaval that erupts when a young tutor arrives and unsettles the carefully maintained equilibrium of a married woman's heart — igniting jealousy, longing, and self-deception among an entire household ill-equipped to confront its own feelings. Turgenev's genius lies in what is left unspoken: beneath the drawing-room civility, he uncovers the turbulent undercurrents of class, gender, and thwarted freedom that define mid-19th-century Russian society. This definitive translation by the celebrated philosopher and intellectual historian Isaiah Berlin — himself a Russian émigré — brings both scholarly rigour and lyrical sensitivity to the text, restoring its psychological depth for English-speaking audiences. Berlin's illuminating introduction situates the play within Turgenev's broader literary vision, making this Hogarth Press edition an indispensable encounter with one of theatre's most quietly devastating masterworks.
Author: Ivan Turgenev
Format: Hardback
Published: 1981, The Hogarth Press
Genre: Plays
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Few works in the Russian dramatic canon capture the ache of suppressed desire as acutely as Ivan Turgenev's A Month in the Country. Set on a languid Russian country estate in the 1840s, the play chronicles the emotional upheaval that erupts when a young tutor arrives and unsettles the carefully maintained equilibrium of a married woman's heart — igniting jealousy, longing, and self-deception among an entire household ill-equipped to confront its own feelings. Turgenev's genius lies in what is left unspoken: beneath the drawing-room civility, he uncovers the turbulent undercurrents of class, gender, and thwarted freedom that define mid-19th-century Russian society. This definitive translation by the celebrated philosopher and intellectual historian Isaiah Berlin — himself a Russian émigré — brings both scholarly rigour and lyrical sensitivity to the text, restoring its psychological depth for English-speaking audiences. Berlin's illuminating introduction situates the play within Turgenev's broader literary vision, making this Hogarth Press edition an indispensable encounter with one of theatre's most quietly devastating masterworks.