Ivan Turgenev 
The Torrents of Spring (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading) 

Considered to be Turgenevs greatest love story,
The Torrents of Spring is a bittersweet story of young love steered astray by passion. While traveling through Germany, nobleman Dmitri Sanin meets Gemma Roselli, a beautiful Italian girl who works in her familys shop. They fall in love as Sanin saves Gemmas brother life and defends her honor in a duel. Romance turns toward heartbreak, though, when Sanin falls under the spell of an imperious woman.

O autorze

Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883) ranks as one of the greatest Russian novelists of the nineteenth century. He was born in a provincial town south of Moscow, but spent most of his adult life outside of Russia. In April 1852, he was arrested for violating a censor’s edict. Turgenev’s most famous works include
Fathers and Sons (1862) and
A Sportsman’s Sketches (1852).