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020			_a9781847499080
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041			_aeng
041			_hrus
050			_aPG3326 _b.S413
100			_aDostoyevsky, Fyodor _d1821-1881 _923168 _eauthor
240			_aSelo Stepanchikovo i ego obitateli. _lEnglish
245			_aThe village of Stepanchikovo and its inhabitants _b/ Fyodor Dostoyevsky ; translated by Roger Cockrell
260			_aLondon : _bAlma Classics, _c2023.
300			_ax, 308 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliography on page 308.
520			_aPresented in a new translation by Roger Cockrell, The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants was originally conceived as a play and first published in 1859, shortly after the author's release from forced military service. Gogolian in style and tone, and waspish in its description of the villainous Opiskin, it is a sustained exercise in caricatural cruelty and a comedic tour de force. The young Sergei is summoned from St Petersburg by his uncle, the retired colonel Yegor Rostanev, to the remote country estate of Stepanchikovo. Rostanev's household, populated by a medley of remarkable characters, is dominated by the figure of Foma Opiskin, a devious, manipulative hanger-on who has everyone in thrall and plots to marry the colonel to the woman of his choice, Tatyana Ivanova. When Opiskin finds that his plans are being thwarted, a confrontation with Rostanev ensues, and all hell is let loose.
650		0	_aDespotism _xFiction _923171
655		0	_aHumorous stories _923172
700			_aCockrell, Roger _923132 _etranslator
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999			_c4022 _d4022
653			_aREADING IN ENGLISH
655			_aRussian literature
655			_aLiterary classics