The Boarding-School Girl

The Boarding-School Girl
by Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya, Karen Rosneck

The Boarding-School Girl
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Author: Karen Rosneck, Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); Russian (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2000-01-25
ISBN: 0810117444
Number of pages: 154
Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Summary of The Boarding-School Girl

This tale of a young woman's not-so-sentimental education, set amid the lower provincial gentry of nineteenth-century Russia, introduces English-speaking readers to a Russian writer celebrated for her humorous and spirited prose style, lively imagination, and radical approach to the themes and intellectual trends of her day.

"The Boarding-School Girl" is the story of fifteen-year-old Lolenka, who encounters an exiled radical named Veretitsyn and soon after begins to question her education at a private girls' school. Under Veretitsyn's influence, Lolenka breaks with provincial tradition-failing her examinations and flouting an arranged marriage-and embarks upon a new life. When the novel rediscovers her eight years later in Petersburg, she is working as a translator and an artist, selling her own reproductions of famous paintings. A chance meeting with Veretitsyn at the Hermitage leads to a sobering reappraisal of her mentor's convictions.

First published in 1861, "The Boarding-School Girl" displays the spirit, candor, and invention that brought its author popular and critical acclaim. In this rare story of a woman's coming-of-age, wise analysis and attention to psychological detail provide an intriguing glimpse of Russian life in the nineteenth century.

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