Talnikov Family - A Novel

Avdotya Panaeva's The Talnikov Family portrays a tumultuous upbringing in 1820s St. Petersburg with equal parts wit and rage.

List of contents

Introduction
The Talnikov Family
Acknowledgments
Notes

About the author

Avdotya Panaeva (1820-1893) was a Russian novelist, memoirist, and contributor to the liberal and radical literary journal The Contemporary. Her novels include Lady of the Steppes (1855), A Woman's Lot (1862), and, coauthored with Nikolai Nekrasov, Three Countries of the World (1848) and The Dead Lake (1851).

Fiona Bell is a translator and scholar of Russophone literature. Her translations from the Russian include Nataliya Meshchaninova's Stories of a Life and the short fiction of the contemporary Belarusian writer Tatsiana Zamirovskaya.

Summary

Avdotya Panaeva’s The Talnikov Family portrays a tumultuous upbringing in 1820s St. Petersburg with equal parts wit and rage.

Product details

• Authors: Avdotya Panaeva
• Assisted by: Fiona Bell (Translation), Bell Fiona (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.08.2024
• EAN: 9780231213196
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21319-6
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Russia, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors), Fiction, Anthologies: general, Anthologies (non-poetry), USSR, Soviet Union, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction: general and literary