The Minor

Denis Fonvizin


Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars
3.64 · 14 ratings · 168 pages · Published: 1782

The Minor by Denis Fonvizin
Written in a time where education was a defining difference between the rich and the poor this story is about the Prostakov family so ignorant and brutish that they survive only through the industry of their ill-treated serfs. The plot centers on the tyrannical mother's attempts to educate her spoiled and loutish son for the civil service and to marry him to an heiress.

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