The Unfortunate Pearl

A person needs a reliable sanctuary — a place to hide from the raging storms of a ruthless world. And what despair, what tragedy can befall a human being if there is nowhere in the whole wide world to find a believing, understanding, dear soul! Driven into a corner by the will of cruel fate, he cannot achieve happiness, he cannot know joy.
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev is known to all as the voice of the moods of the 19th century. But few know him as a storyteller of eternal tales about broken human destinies. His descriptions are so vivid, and his style so bright, that the reader begins to feel: he himself was a witness to those dramatic events, he was there and experienced everything. The novellas "The Unfortunate" and "First Love," gathered under one cover, will capture your heart from the very first pages — only if you have one.
Open the book and touch the pearls of world literature lost in the flow of time!