The Village of Stepanchikovo : And its Inhabitants: from the Notes of an Unknown EPUB
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ignat Avsey
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Summoned to the country estate of his wealthy uncle Colonel Yegor Rostanev, the young student Sergey Aleksandrovich finds himself thrown into a startling bedlam.
For as he soon sees, his meek and kind-hearted uncle is wholly dominated by a pretentious and despotic pseudo-intellectual named Opiskin, a charlatan who has ingratiated himself with Yegor’s mother and now holds the entire household under his thumb.
Watching the absurd theatrics of this domestic tyrant over forty-eight explosive hours, Sergey grows increasingly furious - until at last, he feels compelled to act.
A compelling comic exploration of petty tyranny, The Village of Stepanchikovo reveals a delight in life’s wild absurdities that rivals even Gogol’s.
It also offers a fascinating insight into the genesis of the characters and situations of many of Dostoyevsky’s great later novels, including The Idiot, Devils and The Brothers Karamazov.
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:224 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:25/01/2007
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- ISBN:9780141965383
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:224 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:25/01/2007
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- ISBN:9780141965383