Futility (Registro nro. 117973)
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| control field | 77253 |
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| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 23000471 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | PR |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Gerhardie, William Alexander, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1895-1977 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Futility |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Media type term | computer |
| Media type code | c |
| Source | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Carrier type code | cr |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Release date is 2025-11-16 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Futility by William Gerhardi is a novel written in the early 20th century. It blends comedy and melancholy in a Chekhov-like portrait of pre-revolutionary Russian society, seen through an Anglo-Russian narrator who becomes entangled with the turbulent Bursanov family. The likely focus is the clash of love, vanity, money, and obligation across a sprawling circle of relatives, dependents, and suitors, where every solution breeds new complications and a pervasive sense of futility.<br/><br/>The opening of the book frames the narrator in Vladivostok, awaiting a ship home and deciding to set down his tale, then flashing back to a seaside dacha near Petersburg where he meets the three sisters—Sonia, Nina, and Vera—and glimpses the family’s fractures while watching Chekhov’s Three Sisters. At their city flat he learns that the commanding Fanny Ivanovna is not legally married to their father, Nikolai Vasilievich; constant quarrels, money troubles, and divorce tangles dominate. Nina and Vera depart for Moscow to their mother, and at the station the narrator impulsively proposes to Nina. Fanny then pours out her history: a proud German past, eleven years as Nikolai’s partner without divorce, his wife Magda’s disruptions, the illusion of Siberian gold mines, a mortgaged house, and a trail of dependents (including the silent “Kniaz”). A dinner interrupted by letters and visitors brings Eisenstein’s tearful plea and the shock that Vera is his daughter; later, Magda waits on the landing and confides her wish to remarry and her belief that Nikolai long avoided divorce to evade marrying Fanny. The narrator soon encounters Nikolai exultant with teenaged Zina and meets her ravenous family; a theatre sighting by Fanny and the girls deepens the rift. Emboldened, the narrator drafts a grand “intervention” chart to fix everyone’s lives, only to be mocked, his plan torn up, and his coach horse’s comic retreat sealing his humiliation; a sleepless white night on the balcony with Fanny closes this beginning in rueful, talk-filled stillness. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | New York: Duffield and Company, 1922 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Historical fiction |
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| Uncontrolled term | Soviet Union -- Fiction |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Wharton, Edith, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1862-1937 |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hn28zv&seq=9">https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hn28zv&seq=9</a> |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77253">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77253</a> |
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