Book: Paperback | 129 x 198mm | 224 pages | ISBN 9780140446586 | 24 Apr 2007 | Penguin Classics | 18 - AND UP
This work introduces a Dostoyevsky unfamiliar to most readers, revealing his unexpected talents as a humorist and satirist. While its lighthearted tone and amusing plot make it a joy to read, it also contains the prototypes of characters who appear in his later works.
‘A lively rendering of an unjustly neglected work … a magnificent comic novel’ – Ronald Hingley in The Times Literary Supplement