THE VILLAGE OF STEPANCHIKOVO (CENTAUR CLASSICS)

Sinopsis de THE VILLAGE OF STEPANCHIKOVO (CENTAUR CLASSICS)

Dostoyevsky's narrator has been summoned to his uncle Colonel Rostanev's remote country estate in the hope that he will act as decoy and rescue Rostanev's former ward, Nastenka Yezhevikin, from the tyranny of Opiskin, a despot and charlatan who has the whole household under his thumb. Forty-eight hours of explosive comic drama unfold, culminating in a violent confrontation between Opiskin and the ineffectual Rostanev.