The Little Demon
$24.32
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
25 September 2013
Summary
Mad, lascivious, sadistic, and ridiculous, the provincial schoolteacher Peredonov torments his students and has hallucinatory fantasies about acts of savagery and degradation, yet to everyone else he is an upstanding member of society.
A dark classic of Russia’s silver age, this blackly funny novel recounts a schoolteacher’s descent into sadism, arson, and murder. As he pursues the idea of marrying to gain promotion, he descends into paranoia, sexual perversion, arson, torture, and mu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141392936 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141392932 |
| Author: | Fyodor Sologub, Ronald Wilks, Pamela Davidson |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 25 September 2013 |
| Weight: | 262g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 23mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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A novel that reigns supreme - or anti-supreme, if one prefers - in the black arts game
A novel that reigns supreme - or anti-supreme, if one prefers - in the black arts game * Boston Globe *
About The Author
Fyodor Sologub
FYODOR SOLOGUB was born in St Petersburg in 1863. His first two novels Bad Dreams (1896) and The Little Demon (1907), which he wrote between 1892 and 1902, were drawn from his own experiences as schoolmaster in a remote provincial town. For many years Sologub could not find a publisher for The Little Demon but when in 1907 the novel was at last published - to immediate and resounding success - he was able to leave his restricting career and devote himself to literature. In 1921 his wife committed suicide and Sologub died a few years later in 1927.
RONALD WILKS studied Russian language and literature at Trinity College,Cambridge, after training as a Naval interpreter, and later Russian literature at London University. He has translated many works from Russian, including books by Gorky, Gogol, Pushkin, Tolstoy and Chekhov.
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