Home of the Gentry
by Ivan Turgenev
Returning to the home of the family home in Russia after years of fruitless attempts away from his roots, Lavretsky decides to turn his back on the emptiness halls of Paris and his frivolous and unfaithful wife, Varvara Pavlovna. Upon his return, he meets Lisa, the daughter of one of his cousins, whom he knew as a child and who rekindled feelings of love that had been drowned in him for a long time. News of Barbara's death comes from France and offers Lavretsky hope for a new life, but a ruthless twist threatens to destroy her dreams and forces her plans to exaggerate.
