Saltykov was the leading satirist in 19th-century Russia. This, his only novel, in a new translation specially commissioned for the World's Classics, is a savage indictment of the family and the land-owning classes in Russia. Theodore Dreiser wrote of the novel, "it interpreted a Russian family and its environment so vividly as to convince me that its author belonged with the greatest writers of his nation, and more, the world."

The Golovlevs (The ^AWorld's Classics)

Saltykov-Shchedrin, M.E.

Oxford University Press

History of a Town

Literature & Fiction

Classics

Ardis Publishers

The town governors . . . all flogged the inhabitants, but the first flogged them pure and simple, the second explained their zeal by referring to the needs of civilization, and the third asked only that in all matters the inhabitants should trust in their valour. 
One of the major satirical novels of the 19th century, Shchedrin's farcical history of Glupov (or Stupid Town) follows the bewildered and stoical Russian inhabitants for hundreds of years as they endure the violence and lunacy of their tyrannical rulers.

The History of a Town (Apollo Library)

Humor & Satire

Apollo Library

Arina Petrovna rules the Golovlev family with an iron hand. Around her swarm her alcoholic sons, dissipated grandchildren and degenerate husband. But in his darkened study, her son Porfiry schemes for an overthrow of power. A stark portrait of the Russian gentry sapped by generations of idleness and social irrelevance.

The Golovlevs (Apollo Library)

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