From One Generation to Another

Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Vasily Polenov, Ivan Shishkin and Ilya Repin. A young officer in the Mutiny reads in the newspaper that he has been killed, and decides to let the mistake stand — it frees him from a fiancée in England and leaves him clear for a richer bride. Nineteen years later the deed is answered. Merriman wrote spare, unsentimental novels of intrigue at a t...