Uncle's Dream: New Translation

Newly Translated and Annotated

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Roger Cockrell (Translator)

Write A Review

Paperback | 12 January 2020

At a Glance

Paperback
244 Pages

Dimensions(cm)
19.8 x 12.8 x 1.9

Paperback

$26.75

or 4 interest-free payments of $6.69 with

Aims to ship in 15 to 25 business days

The small town of Mordasov is all abuzz at the arrival of Prince Kâ", a wealthy, ageing landowner, after an absence of several years. Marya Alexandrovna Moskaleva, 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 Zinaâs existing suitors.

The first book Dostoevsky wrote after serving his sentence in a Siberian prison camp â" an experience that inspired his semi-autobiographical novel The House of the Dead â" Uncleâs Dream shares none of that workâs gloomy tone or weighty subject matter: it is a humorous drawing-room novella, a satire of Russian society that can be enjoyed as a lighter counterpoint to the authorâs later works.

Industry Reviews

No novelist ever wrestled with materialism more fiercely and intelligently than Dostoevsky. -- Jonathan Franzen
The only psychologist from whom I have anything to learn. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The novels of Dostoevsky are seething whirlpools, gyrating sandstorms, waterspouts which hiss and boil and suck us in. They are composed purely and wholly of the stuff of the soul. Against our wills we are drawn in, whirled round, blinded, suffocated, and at the same time filled with a giddy rapture. Out of Shakespeare there is no more exciting reading. -- Virginia Woolf
The real nineteenth-century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx. -- Albert Camus
Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss! -- Albert Einstein

Shipping

	Standard Shipping	Express Shipping
Metro postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Regional postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Rural postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95

How to return your order

At Booktopia, we offer hassle-free returns in accordance with our returns policy. If you wish to return an item, please get in touch with Booktopia Customer Care.

Additional postage charges may be applicable.