Gentlemen Golovlyovs. A Novel

Mikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826–1889) — a great satirist with a tragic worldview. His novel «Gentlemen Golovlyovs» is a family chronicle of a noble lineage, a story of its decline and extinction. The author explores family relationships with the merciless pen of a satirist, akin to a surgical lancet. He tears off the bandages, opens up festering wounds, exposes them for all to see, so that the reader may recognize themselves and feel shame for their thoughts and actions, which in the convex mirror of the novel become enormous, voluminous, monstrously
evil and grotesquely terrifying.
For older school age.