Description
| Product ID: | 9781847497680 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Alma Classics 101 Pages |
| Title: | Uncle's Dream: New Translation |
| Subtitle: | Newly Translated and Annotated |
| Authors: | Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Roger Cockrell |
| Page Count: | 224 |
| Subjects: | Classic fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Fiction in translation, Fiction in translation |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Uncle's Dream is a humorous drawing-room novella, a satire of Russian society that can be enjoyed as a lighter counterpoint to the author's later works. The small town of Mordasov is all abuzz at the arrival of Prince K—, a wealthy, ageing landowner, after an absence of several years. Maria Alexandrovna Moskalyova, a local gossip and fearsome schemer, decides that he would be an advantageous match for her daughter Zina. But in her endeavours to make such a union come about, she must contend with rival matchmakers and Zina’s wilfulness.Written soon after Dostoevsky was released from the prison camp that inspired The House of the Dead, Uncle’s Dream shares very little of that novel’s gloomy tone and contains many elements of a light, drawing-room farce. Beneath the surface, however, lies a sharply satirical voice which looks ahead in part to later novels such as Devils. |
| Imprint Name: | Alma Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Alma Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-03-12 |