The Village of Stepanchikovo

Download or Read eBook The Village of Stepanchikovo PDF written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-01-25 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Village of Stepanchikovo
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Total Pages : 362
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ISBN-10 : 9780141965383
ISBN-13 : 014196538X
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Book Synopsis The Village of Stepanchikovo by : Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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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