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Family Happiness

Family Happiness

Maude, Louise
Maude, Aylmer
Tolstoy, Leo

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Christian FictionClassic FictionGeneral Fiction

ISBN10: 1534798455
ISBN13: 9781534798458
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 21 2016
Pages: 62
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.13 Width: 7.01 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Family Happiness Leo Tolstoy Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude The story concerns the love and marriage of a young girl, Mashechka (17 years old), and the much older Sergey Mikhaylych, an old family friend. The story is narrated by Masha. After a courtship that has the trappings of a mere family friendship, Masha's love grows and expands until she can no longer contain it. She reveals it to Sergey Mikhaylych and discovers that he also is deeply in love. If he has resisted her it was because of his fear that the age difference between them would lead the very young Masha to tire of him. He likes to be still and quiet, he tells her, while she will want to explore and discover more and more about life. Ecstatically and passionately happy, the pair immediately engages to be married. Once married they move to Mikhaylych's home. They are both members of the landed Russian upper class. Masha soon feels impatient with the quiet order of life on the estate, notwithstanding the powerful understanding and love that remains between the two. To assuage her anxiety, they decide to spend a few weeks in St. Petersburg. Sergey Mikhaylych agrees to take Masha to an aristocratic ball. He hates society but she is enchanted with it. They go again, and then again. She becomes a regular, the darling of the countesses and princes, with her rural charm and her beauty.

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