Liza EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY # 677 de Turgenev, Ivan Sergeyevich - 1914

London: J. M. Dent & Sons Limited, 1914. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. FIRST EDITION EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY # 677, Introduction by Ernest Rhys. Translated from the Russian by W. R. S. Ralston. Very good red cloth. Faded Gilt titles and decoration. Slight use, spine cocked, previous owner name on half title page, tanning to rear endpaper, no jacket. [n.d.1914], 12mo, viii, 231pp. [1], Temple Press, 1/1//U Seymour, "A Nest of Gentle-Folk was the original Russian title for this novel, but it is the character of Liza, one of the noblest heroines in Russian literature, who cannot fail to evoke the reader's compassion, that established the book and the author in Russia, and, not much later, abroad. W. R. S. Ralston's English translation was the first to appear, eleven years after the original; Turgenev himself approved the translation and agreed to the use of Liza's name as the title." RG4