{"product_id":"the-golovlyov-family-shchedrin-paperback","title":"The Golovlyov Family: Shchedrin - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eShchedrin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJames Wood\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSearingly hot in the summer, bitterly cold in the winter, the ancestral estate of the Golovlyov family is the end of the road. There Anna Petrovna rules with an iron hand over her servants and family-until she loses power to the relentless scheming of her hypocritical son Judas. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne of the great books of Russian literature, \u003ci\u003e The Golovlyov Family\u003c\/i\u003e is a vivid picture of a condemned and isolated outpost of civilization that, for contemporary readers, will recall the otherwordly reality of Macondo in Gabriel Garc a M rquez's \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Years of Solitude\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov, pen-name Shchedrin, (1826-1889) is known as Russia's greatest satirist. Born into the landed gentry, he worked as a civil servant while writing and editing for radical journals. Though he was exiled for seven years, he maintained an unflagging attack on Russia's social institutions, the new bourgeois capitalists, and the cowardice of the educated classes. Shchedrin showed his talents in the \u003ci\u003eFables, The History of a Town\u003c\/i\u003e, and his masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eThe Golovlyov Family\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJames Wood is a novelist, staff critic at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, and Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism at Harvard University.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 344\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.97 x 8.01 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 31, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772843786528,"sku":"9780940322578","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/94b43ecae8999b35e905505a0b085c2d.webp?v=1780415476","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-golovlyov-family-shchedrin-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}