The Servant Revisited (eBook, ePUB)
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Wandering the streets of Moscow at the beginning of the twentieth-century, Gerasim Poliakoff, the one-time "Golden Boy" of a small and dirt-poor Russian village, looks in vain for employment during a period of social upheaval and economic hardship sweeping the country.Having all but exhausted the generosity and hospitality of friends, hungry to the point of desperation and without a roof to cover his head, he walks to see a gainfully employed friend in a small town at the edge of the city and prays that friend may be able to do something for him.A prayer his friend grudgingly answers when he i...
Wandering the streets of Moscow at the beginning of the twentieth-century, Gerasim Poliakoff, the one-time "Golden Boy" of a small and dirt-poor Russian village, looks in vain for employment during a period of social upheaval and economic hardship sweeping the country.
Having all but exhausted the generosity and hospitality of friends, hungry to the point of desperation and without a roof to cover his head, he walks to see a gainfully employed friend in a small town at the edge of the city and prays that friend may be able to do something for him.
A prayer his friend grudgingly answers when he introduces Gerasim to the recently widowed young woman who is now his employer and seeks domestic help.
A young woman with startling looks - and an even more disturbing mindset - Gerasim soon realises hails from the same dirt-poor village as himself.
And appears delighted to have the struggling former "Golden Boy" before her as a supplicant as she makes him a strange and disquieting offer...
Believable dark romance and female-led fiction, inspired by the classic Russian fiction of the nineteenth and early-twentieth-century, for those with a passion for tales from earlier periods offering a different perspective to the morality, expectations, and social mores of the present.
Sandrine Bessancort is the pen-name of a French-born and Honfleur based legal-professional with a passion for the re-imagining of antique tales with a female-led slant that include: "The Parasite Revisited" and the "A Scandal in Bohemia... and Worse!".
Having all but exhausted the generosity and hospitality of friends, hungry to the point of desperation and without a roof to cover his head, he walks to see a gainfully employed friend in a small town at the edge of the city and prays that friend may be able to do something for him.
A prayer his friend grudgingly answers when he introduces Gerasim to the recently widowed young woman who is now his employer and seeks domestic help.
A young woman with startling looks - and an even more disturbing mindset - Gerasim soon realises hails from the same dirt-poor village as himself.
And appears delighted to have the struggling former "Golden Boy" before her as a supplicant as she makes him a strange and disquieting offer...
Believable dark romance and female-led fiction, inspired by the classic Russian fiction of the nineteenth and early-twentieth-century, for those with a passion for tales from earlier periods offering a different perspective to the morality, expectations, and social mores of the present.
Sandrine Bessancort is the pen-name of a French-born and Honfleur based legal-professional with a passion for the re-imagining of antique tales with a female-led slant that include: "The Parasite Revisited" and the "A Scandal in Bohemia... and Worse!".
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