Veshnie vody. Nakanune - Turgenev Ivan Sergeevich

This collection includes the novel "The Day Before" and the novel "The Hanging Waters" - two wonderful stories about love. In the novel "The Day Before" a young aristocrat from a wealthy family is ready, without hesitation, to break with the family, society and homeland, to follow her beloved - a Bulgarian, ready to give her life for the liberation of the homeland from Turkish rule. In the novel "Hanging Waters" a young man traveling through Europe, to make a crucial choice between a pure and bright feeling for a beautiful bride and a dark, witchy passion for a predatory "rock woman." Even contemporaries admired Turgenev's talent to write about love cleverly and subtly, lyrically, but without cloying sentimentality - and this talent, striking and attracting and attracting the modern reader, fully fills the works included in the collection.