Excerpt from A House of Gentlefolk: A Novel In his first novel Turgenev shows us that small section of it which had absorbed more of Western learning and ideas than was good for it, getting a sort of moral dyspepsia coming from intellectual surfeit. In A House of Gentle fo/le he lays the centre of action in that section Of the nobility which has hardly been touched by European civilisation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.