01916cam a2200301 i 4500 1104531490 TxAuBib 20240103120000.0 160823s2016||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u bl2016036586 9781524708696 PAP 29.00 1524708690 PAP 29.00 TxAuBib rda Towles, Amor, author. A Gentleman in Moscow [Large Print] / Amor Towles. First large print edition. [New York] : Random House Large Print, [2016] 719 pages : illustration ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility—a transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel. In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery. Brimming with humor, a glittering cast of characters, and one beautifully rendered scene after another, this singular novel casts a spell as it relates the count’s endeavor to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose. 20240110. Prisoners Fiction. Large type books. Moscow (Russia) History 20th century Fiction. Historical fiction. lcgft