The Permanent Husband
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN13:
9781542981064
$13.16
Alexei Ivanovich Velchaninov is a land owner who stays in Saint Petersburg for a trial about a piece of land. He receives a visit from Pavel Pavlovich Trusotsky, an old acquaintance who recently became a widower. Velchaninov had an affair with Trusotsky's wife Natalia, and he realizes that he is the biological father of Liza, Trusotsky's eight-year-old daughter. Velchaninov, who doesn't want Liza to be raised by an alcoholic, brings Liza to a foster family. Liza dies there. Trusotsky now wants to marry Nadia, the fifteen-year-old daughter of civil servant Zakhlyobinin. She's the sixth daughter of eight. Trusotsky takes Velchaninov with him to visit his fiancee, and buys her a bracelet. Trusotsky is ridiculed by Zakhlyobinin's daughters and locked up during a game of hide-and-seek. Nadia gives the bracelet to Velchaninov, asking him to return it to Trusotsky and tell him she doesn't want to marry him. Nadia is secretly engaged to Alexander Lobov, a nineteen-year-old boy. Trusotsky spends the night in Velchaninov's room and tries to kill him with a razor knife. Velchaninov manages to defend himself, injuring his left hand. Sometime later, when Velchaninov has won his trial, the two meet again at a railway station. Trusotsky is remarried, but a young army officer is travelling with him and his wife. Trusotsky's new wife invites Velchaninov to visit them, but Trusotsky asks him to ignore this invitation.
- | Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Frederick James Whishaw
- | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- | Publication Date: Feb 07, 2017
- | Number of Pages: 140 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1542981069
- | ISBN-13: 9781542981064
- Author:
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Frederick James Whishaw
- Publisher:
- CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication Date:
- Feb 07, 2017
- Number of pages:
- 140 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1542981069
- ISBN-13:
- 9781542981064