Night Owls, 9780241752197
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Sleepless traveller overhears scandalous tales from an uproarious anti-heroine next door.
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    144 pages

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    14 July 2025

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Summary

Night Owls: A Sleepless Tale of Scandal and Society

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books

“I decided that my trip had evidently been in vain, since nothing of interest could possibly occur on this visit. I was mistaken.”

Condemned to sleeplessness by the chatter permeating his guesthouse room, a forlorn traveller turns his ear to the riotous tale spun by the garrulous, meddlesome, inane and utterly unprincipled Marya Mart novna next door. Her exuber…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241752197
ISBN-10:0241752191
Series:Penguin Archive
Author:Nikolai Leskov, Hugh McLean
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:144
Release Date:14 July 2025
Weight:91g
Dimensions:180mm x 110mm x 8mm
About The Author

Nikolai Leskov

Nikolai Leskov was born in 1831 in the village of Gorokhovo in Russia. He began his writing career as a journalist living in Kiev, and later settled in St. Petersburg. He published his first piece of fiction in 1862 in The Northern Bee, and continued on to write and publish many short stories and novellas, including The Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (1865), The Sealed Angel (1873), The Enchanted Wanderer (1873), and Lefty (1882). He died in February 1895.

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