Synopsis
The Journey Of Fifth Horse
Published by Samuel French Inc
Large Mixed Cast
This sets three worlds spinning - the reader's dream world, the real world and the world of the diarist
In his dreams the reader is to marry the owner's daughter while his lady is eager to wed and bed him
In reality, he proposes to the landlady and is promptly scorned
The diarist loved a girl who fell victim to a dashing cossack and was left pregnant when his regiment moved on
The diarist is scorned for having provoked a duel, and the girl will not even have him as a foster father for the child
"Sure and subtle craftsmanship [and] ... language with a grace and suppleness one does not often encounter" ~ Harper's Magazine
M12,F6 - Adapted from Turgenev's Diary of a Superfluous Man