num_pages: 358
description: Searingly hot in the summer, bitterly cold in the winter, the ancestral estate of the Golovlyov family is the end of the road. There Anna Petrovna rules with an iron hand over her servants and family-until she loses power to the relentless scheming of her hypocritical son Porphyry. One of the great classic novels of Russian literature, The Golovlyov Family is a vivid picture of a condemned and isolated outpost of civilization that, for contemporary readers, will recall the otherwordly reality of Macondo in Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude.
language: English
title: The Golovlyov Family
titlecomplete: The Golovlyov Family
characters: Anna Vladimirovna, Arina Petrovna, Pavel Vladimirovich, Stepan Vladimirovich, Porfiry Vladimirovich, Vladimir Mikhaylovich Golovlyov
genres: Classics, Russia, Novels, Russian Literature, Historical Fiction, Literature, Audiobook, 19th Century, Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 2795
publisher: NYRB Classics