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The History of a Town

The History of a Town

M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin
Barcode 9781784975425
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Release Date: 08/09/2016

Genre: Fiction
Label: Apollo Library
Contributors: Charlotte Hobson (Introduction by)
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

One of the major satirical novels of modern Russia, Saltykov-Schedrin's hilarious chronicle is a harch criticism of Tsarist Russia, strangely pertinent to today.

. The town governors. all flogged the inhabitants, but the first flogged them pure and simple, the second explained their zeal by referring to the needs of civilization, and the third asked only that in all matters the inhabitants should trust in their valour. One of the major satirical novels of the 19th century, Shchedrin's farcical history of Glupov (or Stupid Town) follows the bewildered and stoical Russian inhabitants for hundreds of years as they endure the violence and lunacy of their tyrannical rulers.

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