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Foolsburg : the history of a town / M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin ; translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
Van Pelt Library PG3361.S3 I713 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Saltykov, Mikhail Evgrafovich, 1826-1889, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Istorii͡a odnogo goroda. English (Pevear and Volokhonsky)
- Исторiя одного города. English (Pevear and Volokhonsky)
- Language:
- English
- Russian
- Genre:
- satire (artistic device)
- Satirical literature.
- Physical Description:
- x, 289 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- FIrst Vintage Classics edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2024.
- Summary:
- "A new translation of the 1870 Russian satiric classic (previously translated into English as The History of a Certain Town). It takes the form of the fantastical chronical of a fictional town called Glupov (translated here as Foolstown) and its rulers over many generations, satirizing tyranny and its enablers"-- Provided by publisher.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Saltykov-Shchedrin, Mikhail, 1826- Foolsburg
- ISBN:
- 9780593687314
- 0593687310
- OCLC:
- 1410456377
- Publisher Number:
- 90100063719
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