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The Little Demon
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Author : Fyodor Sologub
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2013-07-25
The Little Demon written by Fyodor Sologub and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-25 with Fiction categories.
A dark classic of Russia's silver age, this blackly funny novel recounts a schoolteacher's descent into sadism, arson and murder. Mad, lascivious, sadistic and ridiculous, the provincial schoolteacher Peredonov torments his students and has hallucinatory fantasies about acts of savagery and degradation, yet to everyone else he is an upstanding member of society. As he pursues the idea of marrying to gain promotion, he descends into paranoia, sexual perversion, arson, torture and murder. Sologub's anti-hero is one of the great comic monsters of twentieth-century fiction, subsequently lending his name to the brand of sado-masochism known as Peredonovism. The Little Demon (1907) made an immediate star of its author who, refuting suggestions that the work was autobiographical, stated 'No, my dear contemporaries ... it is about you'. This grotesque mirror of a spiritually bankrupt society is arguably the finest Russian novel to have come out of the Symbolist movement. Fyodor Sologub was born in St Petersburg in 1863. His first two novels Bad Dreams (1896) and The Little Demon (1907) were drawn from his own experiences as schoolmaster in a remote provincial town. For many years Sologub could not find a publisher for The Little Demon but when in 1907 the novel was at last published - to immediate and resounding success - he was able to leave his restricting career and devote himself to literature. In 1921 his wife committed suicide and Sologub died a few years later in 1927. Ronald Wilks studied Russian language and literature at Trinity College,Cambridge, after training as a Naval interpreter, and later Russian literature at London University. He has translated many works from Russian for Penguin Classics, including books by Gorky, Gogol, Pushkin, Tolstoy and Chekhov.
The Little Demon
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Author : Fedor Sologub
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1916
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The Little Demon Girl
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Author : Josh Duer
language : en
Publisher: Fultus Corporation
Release Date : 2010
The Little Demon Girl written by Josh Duer and has been published by Fultus Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Fiction categories.
The story is told in first person from the protagonist Joshua. He is slowly going insane and the only thing that keeps him stable is the three-foot tall demon girl who lives in his closet.
The Little Demon
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Author : Fëdor Sologub
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1916
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The Little Demon
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Author : Fyodor Sologub
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2021-05-19
The Little Demon written by Fyodor Sologub and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-19 with Fiction categories.
The Little Demon is an engrossing tale of rage, desperate affection, and subtle opportunism in a small Russian provincial town shortly after the turn of the 20th century. It narrates the story of Peredonov, the antihero, a petty official who lives in constant hate for the world around him and life itself. Throughout the novel, Peredonov struggles to be promoted to governmental inspector of his province and starts going paranoid and hallucinating. The main hero, Peredonov, is as comical as he is disgusting. He is at once a victim, a monster, a foolish hypocrite, and a vicious nitwit. The plot moves from him to the hopeless romance of the boy Sasha Pylnikov and a much older woman Ludmila Rutilova. Fyodor Sologub's The Little Demon is one of the most humorous and the most scandalous of the great Russian classics, packed with nude boys, curvy girls, and a strange mixture of beauty and perversity. Even in its censored form, it is considered one of the most infuriating and sexually open of the Russian books classics.
The Little Demon Classic Reprint
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Author : Feodor Sologub
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-07-13
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Excerpt from The Little Demon "The Little Demon" is a successful and almost imperceptible merging of comedy with tragedy. It is in fact a tragedy in which the comic forms an integral part and is not sandwiched in superficially merely to please the reader. The method resembles in a measure that of Gogol's "Dead Souls," with which "The Little Demon" was compared upon its first appearance in 1907. It is a work of art - and it is a challenge; and this challenge is addressed not to Russia alone, but to the whole world. "What a sad place Russia is!" exclaimed Pushkin when Gogol read his story to him. But what the world knows to-day is that Gogol gave us a portrait of the human soul, and that only the frame was Russian. Prince Kropotkin assures us that there are Chichikovs in England, and Professor Phelps of Yale is equally emphatic about their presence in America. And this is also true of Peredonov, of "The Little Demon." In spite of its "local colour" and its portrayal of small town life in Russia, this novel has the world for its stage, and its chief actor, Peredonov, is a universal character. He is a Russian - an American - an Englishman. He is to be found everywhere, and in every station of life. Both translators agree that they have even met one or two Peredonovs at London literary teas - and not a few Volodins, for that matter. Certainly there is a touch of Peredonov in many men. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Little Demon
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Author : Fyodor Sologub
language : en
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Release Date : 2013-01
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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
The Little Demon Who Couldn T
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Author : Odelia Floris
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-06-29
The Little Demon Who Couldn T written by Odelia Floris and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-29 with categories.
Little Murmur is doing a poor job of being a demon. His nose is hardly hooked, his chin is round, his fingernails short and not remotely talon-like, and he is so lazy that he can barely be bothered spreading evil and mischief among man. His father is not impressed, and neither are his two older brothers. But still young Murmur prefers to spend his nights lazing in the abandoned churchyard over the wall from his back garden. After all, lying on the lid of the old mayor's tombstone gazing up at the stars is much easier than finding humans to incite to acts of evil. And it is a deal safer too; little chance here of crossing paths with the demons' nemesis, the angels. But the other demons are not happy. Something must be done about Murmur. He needs to be turned into a proper mean, God-mocking demon. He needs to complete Belphegor's Idiot Management Course. The heinous Belphegor has a hard task on his hands. There is no demon more stupid, lazy or cowardly than Murmur in all of Hell. But when a magnificent great-winged angel falls from the sky and lands in the old well in Murmur's churchyard, things take an unexpected turn. Stuck in the well, the angel is ruining the little demon's once-peaceful retreat. To clear him out, Murmur must approach him, speak to him, look upon him... Will this be the little demon's final downfall...?
The Little Demon
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Author : Fyodor Sologub
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1916
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The Little Demon
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Author : Comte Solloghoub
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1936
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