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Easton Press...Full Leather...Gold Gilding...Sewn in silk book mark...Famous Editions This book is in Very Good Condition except there is a black mark on the back cover (see photo)...the pages are clean and crisp...there is no writing or highlighting...there is no previous owners book plate...the binding is tight and secure... 9 1/2" x 6 3/4" x 1 1/2", 187 pages. I will package it so it remains in the same condition when it gets to you, it will not be shipped in a padded envelope. Multiple purchases will be shipped together at a cost of $1.50 for each additional book purchased. This is a beautiful leather-bound copy of "Torrents of Spring" by Ivan Turgenev, published by Easton Press. It is a wonderful addition to any book collection. Torrents of Spring , also known as Spring Torrents is an 1872 novella. It is highly autobiographical in nature, and centers on a young Russian landowner, Dimitry Sanin, who falls deliriously in love for the first time while visiting the German city of Frankfurt. Written during 1870 and 1871, when Turgenev was in his fifties, the novel is widely held as one of his greatest. Despite its fictional overlay, Torrents of Spring is inspired by the events of Turgenev's life during his 1838-1841 tour of the German States. Torrents of Spring is significant in its revealing of the author's life, thoughts, and most intimate. T he character of Gemma Roselli was inspired by an incident which took place while the future novelist was visiting Frankfurt in 1840. A young woman "of extraordinary beauty suddenly emerged from a tea-room to plead for help in reviving her brother, who had fainted." But, unlike Gemma, the young woman was Jewish rather than Italian and, unlike Sanin, Turgenev left Frankfurt that same night without getting to know her further.