Family of Noblemen
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167
1917
English
- Book I: The Family Council, Ch. 1
- Book I: The Family Council, Ch. 2a
- Book I: The Family Council, Ch. 2b
- Book I: The Family Council, Ch. 3a
- Book I: The Family Council, Ch. 3b
- Book I: The Family Council, Ch. 4
- Book I: The Family Council, Ch. 5
- Book II: As Becomes Good Kinsfolk, Ch. 1
- Book II: As Becomes Good Kinsfolk, Ch. 2
- Book II: As Becomes Good Kinsfolk, Ch. 3
- Book II: As Becomes Good Kinsfolk, Ch. 4
- Book II: As Becomes Good Kinsfolk, Ch. 5
- Book II: As Becomes Good Kinsfolk, Ch. 6
- Book II: As Becomes Good Kinsfolk, Ch. 7
- Book III: Family Accounts Settled, Ch. 1
- Book III: Family Accounts Settled, Ch. 2
- Book III: Family Accounts Settled, Ch. 3
- Book III: Family Accounts Settled, Ch. 4
- Book III: Family Accounts Settled, Ch. 5
- Book III: Family Accounts Settled, Ch. 6
- Book IV: The Good Little Niece, Ch. 1
- Book IV: The Good Little Niece, Ch. 2
- Book IV: The Good Little Niece, Ch. 3
- Book IV: The Good Little Niece, Ch. 4
- Book IV: The Good Little Niece, Ch. 5a
- Book IV: The Good Little Niece, Ch. 5b
- Book IV: The Good Little Niece, Ch. 6
- Book V: Forbidden Family Joys, Ch. 1
- Book V: Forbidden Family Joys, Ch. 2a
- Book V: Forbidden Family Joys, Ch. 2b
- Book V: Forbidden Family Joys, Ch. 3
- Book VI: The Deserted Manor House, Ch. 1
- Book VI: The Deserted Manor House, Ch. 2a
- Book VI: The Deserted Manor House, Ch. 2b
- Book VI: The Deserted Manor House, Ch. 3
- Book VI: The Deserted Manor House, Ch. 4
- Book VII: The Settlement, Ch. 1
- Book VII: The Settlement, Ch. 2a
- Book VII: The Settlement, Ch. 2b
- Book VII: The Settlement, Ch. 3
- Book VII: The Settlement, Ch. 4
- Book VII: The Settlement, Ch. 5
Meet the Golovliovs, the ultimate dysfunctional family. In the difficult transition years before and after the liberation of Russia’s serfs, the Golovliovs are a gentry family ill-equipped to face the adaptations necessary in the new social order. Petty, back-biting, greedy, rigid, ignorant, and cruel, their personalities are captured in the array of nicknames they themselves give each other: The Hag, Little Judas, Simple Simon, Pavel the Sneak, the Orphans, the Blood-Sucker. They hate each other ferociously and utterly despise the peasants around them, who are gradually awakening to the potentialities of their new freedoms. In this most famous of Saltykov-Shchedrin’s novels, there is a keen sympathy toward the plight of women caught in the complexities of social change: Anninka and Lubinka, the aristocratic orphans who, seeking independence, recklessly cast themselves into the bohemian life; the matriarch Arina Petrovna, whose desperately vigorous administration of the estate leads to an exhilarating but only temporary stability; the peasant girl Yevpraksia, who is resistlessly taken by the loathsome Porfiry Vladimirych as his mistress. Far from a piece of social propaganda, A Family of Noblemen shows a subtle portraiture of the complex characters and convoluted circumstances of the time. (Expatriate)
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