Vladimir Sanine comes home to a sleepy provincial town after years away and quietly scandalises it, rejecting duty, politics and conventional morality in favour of instinct and pleasure. Around him, his sister Lida, her officer lover and a circle of earnest students, revolutionaries and idealists struggle with love, shame and despair, while Sanine watches and acts without remorse.
The novel that outraged Russia and Germany after 1905, essential for readers of Russian literature between the revolutions. Download the free EPUB.