Old-World Landowners (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Nikolai Gogol
- First Published: 1835
- Type of Plot: Pastoral
- Time of Work: The early nineteenth century
- Setting: Rural Ukraine
- Principal Characters: Afanasiy Ivanovich Tovstogub, Pul’kheriya Ivanovna Tovstogubikha, The narrator
- Genres: Short fiction, Pastoral
- Subjects: Rural or country life, Fear, Lifestyles, Peace, Life and death, Eating customs
- Locales: Ukraine
The Story
The narrator begins “Old-World Landowners” with praise of the rural landowners of an earlier time in Ukraine, people who live “an extraordinarily secluded life, in which not a single desire strays beyond the palisade surrounding the small courtyard, beyond the wattle fence of the orchard, full of plum and apple trees, beyond the lopsided peasant cottages spaced round it under the shade of willows, elders and pear-trees.” He quickly moves, however, to a particular couple, who are not only old-fashioned but also old: Afanasiy Ivanovich Tovstogub and his wife...
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