{"product_id":"2940170175697","title":"Family of Noblemen","description":"Meet the Golovliovs, the ultimate dysfunctional family. In the difficult transition years before and after the liberation of Russia¿s serfs, the Golovliovs are a gentry family ill-equipped to face the adaptations necessary in the new social order. Petty, back-biting, greedy, rigid, ignorant, and cruel, their personalities are captured in the array of nicknames they themselves give each other: The Hag, Little Judas, Simple Simon, Pavel the Sneak, the Orphans, the Blood-Sucker. They hate each other ferociously and utterly despise the peasants around them, who are gradually awakening to the potentialities of their new freedoms. In this most famous of Saltykov-Shchedrin¿s novels, there is a keen sympathy toward the plight of women caught in the complexities of social change: Anninka and Lubinka, the aristocratic orphans who, seeking independence, recklessly cast themselves into the bohemian life; the matriarch Arina Petrovna, whose desperately vigorous administration of the estate leads to an exhilarating but only temporary stability; the peasant girl Yevpraksia, who is resistlessly taken by the loathsome Porfiry Vladimirych as his mistress. Far from a piece of social propaganda, A Family of Noblemen shows a subtle portraiture of the complex characters and convoluted circumstances of the time. (Expatriate) ","brand":"DISCOS PALMAS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47150533542128,"sku":"2940170175697","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170175697_p0.jpg?v=1772801733","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170175697","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}