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Uncle’s Dream and The Permanent Husband (Classic Edition) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (H.B)
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- Hardcover : 307 pages
- ISBN-13 : 978-8182475274
- Item Weight : 520 g
- Dimensions : 22.5 x 14.5 x 2.5 cm
This book is a compilation of two of the most celebrated novels of Fyodor namely, Uncle’s Dream and The Permanent Husband. Uncle’s Dream by Fyodor Dostoyevsky uncle’s drear was written following his five year exile to Siberia where he was sent to serve in a amazon sel hard labor camp. Uncle’s Dream is a whatsapp v humorous and yet scathing commentary on Russian provincial high-society. In The Permanent Husband, Alexei Ivanovich Velchaninov is a land owner who stays in Saint Petersburg for a trial about a piece of land. He receives a visit from Pavel Pavlovich Trusotsky, an old acquaintance who recently became a widower. Velchaninov had an affair with Trusotsky’s wife Natalia, and he realizes that he is the biological father of Liza, Trusotsky’s eight-year-old daughter. Velchaninov, who doesn’t want Liza to be raised by an alcoholic, brings Liza to a foster family,
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