The Village of Stepanchikovo

The Village of Stepanchikovo
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 228
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ISBN-10 : 0140446583
ISBN-13 : 9780140446586
Rating : 4/5 (586 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Village of Stepanchikovo by : Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Download or read book The Village of Stepanchikovo written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1995-12-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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