EBOOK Ruslan - Barbara Scrupski

EBOOK Ruslan
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Autor: Barbara Scrupski

 Wydawnictwo: Crown Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780307421555
EAN: EE741A64EB
Format: 0,0 x 0,0 x 0,0
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Stron: 464
Data wydania: 2007
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A Novel of Russia
Part Gone with the Wind, part Doctor Zhivago, and thoroughly captivating, Ruslan is the epic story of a destitute young countess in Tsarist Russia who tries every avenue to restore her fortunes.In glittering St. Petersburg, we meet Countess Alexandra Korvin: beautiful and intelligent, but also unmarried andthanks to her late spendthrift fatherquite penniless. In her polarized society of aristocratic grandeur and crushing poverty, a woman's only option is to marry well.Alexandra makes her way through St. Petersburg society, attending dazzling balls, lavish dinners, and operas in search of a spouse. She pursues the charming but unattainable politician Rybynsky and spurns the advances of Ulynov, a rakish army captain who falls desperately in love with her. Finally, craving freedom and rebelling against the confines of her life as a woman, she cuts off her hair and joins the army as a manonly to find the ultimate test of her feminine heart.Rich with decadent trappings of Tsarist splendor and alive with the indomitable spirit of an unforgettable young woman, Ruslan is a novel to savor from first page to last.From the Hardcover edition.

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Barbara Scrupski