Family Happiness (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- First Published: 1859
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: The 1850’s
- Setting: A country estate, St. Petersburg, and a spa in Baden
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Love or romance, Nineteenth century, Marriage, Women’s issues, Germany or German people, Russia or Russian people, Houses, mansions, or manors
- Locales: St. Petersburg, Russia, Baden-Baden, Germany
Characters Discussed
Marya (Masha) Alexandrovna (ah-lehk-SAN- drov-nah), the narrator, a young noblewoman. She tells about her life from the age of seventeen, shortly after the death of her widowed mother, until she is about twenty-three, some four or five years after her marriage. A modest, intelligent woman as yet unaware of her great beauty, she lives with her sister and a governess on the family estate, Pokrovskoe. She falls in love with her legal guardian, Sergey Mikhaylych, a man more than twice her age. In time, he returns her love, and their romance culminates in...
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