At the country estate of Stepanchikovo, the household has fallen completely under the sway of the despotic charlatan and humbug Foma Fomich Opiskin, one of the most notorious creations in Russian literature. The owner of the estate, Colonel Rostanev, a meek, soft-hearted giant of a man, is cruelly dominated by his parasitic houseguest - and now Opiskin has plans to marry his host off to an elderly widow. With deftly controlled suspense, amid a teeming variety of wildly eccentric minor characters, the novel builds up to a confrontation between these two. Will Rostanev give way to Opiskin's bullying and sacrifice the love of his life? Or will his sense of honour finally push him to resist the tyrant's demands?Full of pace, effervescence and absurd characters, this short comic novel represents a rare instance of Dostoyevsky's antic side. Written in the year of his return from exile, it marks the beginning of his artistic maturity. Chekhovian in its bittersweet evocation of a household at war with itself, Dickensian in its comic proliferation of characters, this novel is Dostoyevsky's portrait of a Russia on the verge of upheaval and transformation.
The Brothers Karamazov
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The Complete Novels of Fyodor Dostoyevsky : The Masterworks of Russian Literature
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man : Visions of Redemption
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Demons
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Notes from the Underground
Crime and Punishment
Sorrettuja ja solvaistuja : Rikastettu painos. Romaani
The Friend of the Family : or, The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants
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The Brothers Karamazov
50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1 (2020 Edition) : Included: Little Women, The Richest Man in Babylon Emma, The Call Of The Wild ....
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The Idiot
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World's Greatest Short Stories
The Fyodor Dostoyevsky Collection. Signature Classics : Notes from the Underground, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, White Nights and others
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