The Village of Stepanchikovo: And its Inhabitants: from the Notes of an Unknown (Penguin Classics S.)

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.