Author: Peter StonePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A friend of the family, a play from the novel by Dostoevsky
Author: Peter StoneThe Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky: The friend of the family
Author: Fyodor DostoyevskyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The Village of Stepanchikovo
Author: Fyodor DostoyevskyPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 014196538X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
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.
The Friend of the Family
Author: Fyodor DostoyevskyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky: The friend of the family
Author: Fyodor DostoyevskyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The Friend of the Family
Author: Fyodor DostoyevskyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoevsky to His Family and Friends
Author: Fyodor DostoyevskyPublisher:
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Category : Authors, Russian
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
The friend of the family
Author: Fyodor DostoyevskyPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The Friend of the Family
Author: Fyodor DostoyevskyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780898751192
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A middle-aged charlatan named Foma Fomich Opiskin swindles a Russian family into believing that he is virtuous despite behavior that is passive aggressive, selfish, and spiteful.
The Brothers K
Author: David James DuncanPublisher: Dial Press
ISBN: 030775524X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK Once in a great while a writer comes along who can truly capture the drama and passion of the life of a family. David James Duncan, author of the novel The River Why and the collection River Teeth, is just such a writer. And in The Brothers K he tells a story both striking and in its originality and poignant in its universality. This touching, uplifting novel spans decades of loyalty, anger, regret, and love in the lives of the Chance family. A father whose dreams of glory on a baseball field are shattered by a mill accident. A mother who clings obsessively to religion as a ward against the darkest hour of her past. Four brothers who come of age during the seismic upheavals of the sixties and who each choose their own way to deal with what the world has become. By turns uproariously funny and deeply moving, and beautifully written throughout, The Brothers K is one of the finest chronicles of our lives in many years. Praise for The Brothers K “The pages of The Brothers K sparkle.”—The New York Times Book Review “Duncan is a wonderfully engaging writer.”—Los Angeles Times “This ambitious book succeeds on almost every level and every page.”—USA Today “Duncan’s prose is a blend of lyrical rhapsody, sassy hyperbole and all-American vernacular.”—San Francisco Chronicle “The Brothers K affords the . . . deep pleasures of novels that exhaustively create, and alter, complex worlds. . . . One always senses an enthusiastic and abundantly talented and versatile writer at work.”—The Washington Post Book World “Duncan . . . tells the larger story of an entire popular culture struggling to redefine itself—something he does with the comic excitement and depth of feeling one expects from Tom Robbins.”—Chicago Tribune
