Uncle's Dream: New Translation: Newly Translated and Annotated

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The small town of Mordasov is all abuzz at the arrival of Prince K, 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 Zinas existing suitors. The first book Dostoevsky wrote after serving his sentence in a Siberian prison camp an experience that inspired his semi-autobiographical novel The House of the Dead Uncles Dream shares none of that works 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 authors later works.

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No novelist ever wrestled with materialism more fiercely and intelligently than Dostoevsky. -- Jonathan Franzen

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Fyodor Dostoevsky (182181) is considered one of the greatest writers of all time. His works include such seminal novels as Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Karamazov Brothers.