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The Friend of the Family: or, The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants (Pushkin Press Classics) The Friend of the Family: or, The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants (Pushkin Press Classics)
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His corpulence, double chin and puffed out cheeks spoke of the blissful life of a landowner.
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Opiskin has been claimed as the ‘spiritual progeny’ of Uriah Heep and Mr Pecksniff, besides which it may be observed that Dostoyevsky’s unbuttoned delight in caricature and the depiction of outrageous and eccentric characters is as much Dickensian as Gogolian.
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Another literary presence stands behind Gogol in The Village of Stepanchikovo — Dickens. During penal servitude Dostoyevsky, starved of reading-matter, had eagerly devoured David Copperfield and Pickwick Papers; Dickens’s works were available in Russia in translation not long after their original publication. …
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