Foolsburg: The History of a Town

by Mikhail E. Saltykov-Shchedrin

Book Overview

The award-winning translators bring us a new translation of an 1870 comic novel by Russia's greatest satirist--whose mockery of Russian autocracy is as relevant as ever.

"Pevear and Volokhonsky are the] reigning translators of Russian literature. . . . In Russia, The History of a Town is read in schools and regarded as a masterpiece of 19th-century satire. . . . This new translation] is an argument for the book's Swiftian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593687310
• ISBN13: 9780593687314
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.9"