Futility
1st Edition
Published on 12. July 2018
288 pages
978-1-78669-481-2 (ISBN)
Description
William Gerhardie's first comic novel tells the story of a young Englishman who returns to St Petersburg where he was raised and falls in love with the daughter of a highly eccentric and dysfunctional family - a relationship which is played out with the armies of the Russian Revolution marching outside the parlour window.
Part-British romantic comedy, part-Russian social realism, with Gerhardie's trademark large cast of wonderfully realised and highly memorable characters, this funny and poignant novel is the tale of persistance in love and hope in the face of what should be insurmountably difficult circumstances.
Part-British romantic comedy, part-Russian social realism, with Gerhardie's trademark large cast of wonderfully realised and highly memorable characters, this funny and poignant novel is the tale of persistance in love and hope in the face of what should be insurmountably difficult circumstances.
Reviews / Votes
To my generation Gerhardie was the most important new novelist to appear in our young life True, devastating. A wonderful book Futility is a living book - it is warm. One can put it down and it keeps on breathing Dazzling and funny... Everyone should read one Gerhardie novel, at least, and Futility is probably as good as any' * Sunday Times *More details
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-78669-481-2 (9781786694812)
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Person
William Gerhardie (1895-1977) was born in St Petersburg. Leaving Russia in the wake of the 1917 revolution, Gerhardie travelled to Siberia with the British Military Mission. His first novel Futility was published in 1922.
Content
- Intro
- Welcome Page
- About Futility
- Contents
- Preface
- Epigraph
- Part I: The Three Sisters
- Chapter: I
- Chapter: II
- Chapter: III
- Chapter: IV
- Chapter: V
- Chapter: VI
- Chapter: VII
- Chapter: VIII
- Chapter: IX
- Chapter: X
- Chapter: XI
- Part II: The Revolution
- Chapter: I
- Chapter: II
- Chapter: III
- Chapter: IV
- Part III: Intervening in Siberia
- Chapter: I
- Chapter: II
- Chapter: III
- Chapter: IV
- Chapter: V
- Chapter: VI
- Chapter: VII
- Chapter: VIII
- Chapter: IX
- Chapter: X
- Chapter: XI
- Chapter: XII
- Part IV: Nina
- Chapter: I
- Chapter: II
- Chapter: III
- Chapter: IV
- Chapter: V
- Chapter: VI
- About William Gerhardie
- Also by William Gerhardie
- Endpapers
- About the cover and endpapers
- More from Apollo
- About the Apollo Lost Library
- Copyright
