• See large image

  The Beginning of Spring (Paperback) By (author) Penelope Fitzgerald

  

  $12.64 - Save $0.06 - RRP $12.70 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
  all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours Add to basket | Add to wishlist |

  Short Description for The Beginning of SpringFrank Reid is a struggling printer in Moscow. On the eve of the Revolution, his wife returns to her native England, leaving him to raise their three young children alone. How does a reasonable man like Frank cope? Should he listen to the Tolstoyan advice of his bookkeeper? And should he, in his wife's absence, resist his desire for his lovely Russian housemaid? How can anyone know how to live the
  Full description

  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
  • Published: 01 July 2000
  • Format: Paperback 187 pages
  • See: Full bibliographic data
  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Historical Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780395908716 ISBN 10: 039590871X
  • Sales rank: 299,153

• The Blue Flower

  

  Add to basket $13.58 - Save $0.71 (4%) - RRP $14.29

• An Essay on the Philosophy of Se...

  

  Add to basket $20.72 - Save $4.23 (16%) - RRP $24.95

• The Gate of Angels

  

  Add to basket $11.70 - Save $2.24 (16%) - RRP $13.94

• The Bookshop: The Gate of Angels

  

  Add to basket $19.62 - Save $1.04 (5%) - RRP $20.66

• The Blue Flower

  

  Add to basket $11.24 - Save $1.40 (11%) - RRP $12.64

Full description for The Beginning of Spring

• Frank Reid is a struggling printer in Moscow. On the eve of the Revolution, his wife returns to her native England, leaving him to raise their three young children alone. How does a reasonable man like Frank cope? Should he listen to the Tolstoyan advice of his bookkeeper? And should he, in his wife's absence, resist his desire for his lovely Russian housemaid? How can anyone know how to live the right life?