Netochka Nezvanova - Penguin Classics
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Paperback (29 Aug 1985)


Categories: Literary Studies: General Contemporary Fiction Classic Books & Novels


Description
Netochka Nezvanova - a Nameless Nobody - tells the story of a childhood dominated by her stepfather, Efimov, a failed musician who believes he is a neglected genius. The young girl is strangely drawn to this drunken ruin of a man, who exploits her and drives the family to poverty. But when she is rescued by an aristocratic family, the abuse against Netochkas delicate psyche continues in a more subtle way, condemning her to remain an outsider - a solitary spectator of a glittering society. Conceived as part of a novel on a grand scale, Netochka Nezvanova remained incomplete after Dostoyevsky was exiled to Siberia for revolutionary activities in 1849. With its depiction of the suffering, loneliness, madness and sin that affect both rich and poor in St Petersburg, it contains the great themes that were to dominate his later novels.


Product details

Format Paperback | 176 pages
Dimensions 129 x 198 x 9mm | 134g
Publication date 07 Jan 1986
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint Penguin Classics
Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
Language English
ISBN10 0140444556
ISBN13 9780140444551
Bestsellers rank 174,586