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The Village of Stepanchikovo

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1859
Originally in
Originally in Russian
Pages
Pages 280

A serf boy called Falalei keeps dreaming of a white bull. He has been forbidden to, and he cannot stop, so every morning he confesses the dream and is scolded for its vulgarity by Foma Fomich Opiskin, a failed writer and lifelong sponger who has made himself the moral authority of an entire estate.

Do you understand that now in one minute you have poisoned every morsel I have tasted in your house?
The Village of Stepanchikovo, Fyodor Dostoevsky

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