01646cam a2200373 i 4500 551019045 TxAuBib 20220312120000.0 160317s2016||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 9781524708696 1524708690 (OCoLC)945351974 TxAuBib rda Towles, Amor,. A Gentleman in Moscow [Large Print] / Amor Towles. First large print edition. [New York] : Random House Large Print, [2016] ©2016. 719 pages, soft cover : maps ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier When, in 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the Count 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. 20220312. Aristocracy (Social class) Fiction. Detention of persons Fiction. Home detention Fiction. Hotels Russia Fiction. Large type books. Moscow (Russia) History Fiction.