(Harper Perennial Classic Stories) Family Happiness

Type

Book

Authors

Leo Tolstoy

ISBN 13

9780061773730

Tags

anglais, english, classic, fiction, russian, Short Stories, Russia, Russian Literature, short story, Saint Petersburg, 19th Century Russia

Series Name

(Harper Perennial Classic Stories)

Abstract

Family Happiness is an 1859 novella written by Leo Tolstoy. The story concerns the love and marriage of a young girl, Mashechka, and the much older Sergey Mikhaylych, an old family friend. After a somewhat awkward courtship, the two are married and move to Mikhaylych's home. Over the course of the 100 page story, Mashechka finds that married life and her feelings for Mikhaylych are much more complex than she had thought and have little to do with her previous, slightly naive, notions of marriage, hence the ironic overtones of the title, "Family Happiness".

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