Download or read book The Beginning of Spring written by Penelope Fitzgerald and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1998 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank Reid is a struggling printer in Moscow. On the eve of the Revolution, his wife returns to her native England, leaving him to raise their three young children alone. How does a reasonable man like Frank cope? Should he listen to the Tolstoyan advice of his bookkeeper? And should he, in his wife's absence, resist his desire for his lovely Russian housemaid? How can anyone know how to live the right life?