Night Owls

Nikolai Leskov author Hugh McLean translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:17th Apr '25

Should be back in stock very soon

Night Owls cover

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books

'I decided that my trip had evidently been in vain, since nothing of interest could possibly occur on this visit. I was mistaken.'


Condemned to sleeplessness by the chatter permeating his guesthouse room, a forlorn traveller turns his ear to the riotous tale spun by the garrulous, meddlesome, inane and utterly unprincipled Márya Martýnovna next door. Her exuberant deformations of morality and language scandalized Tsarist society, and she remains one of Russian literature’s most uproarious anti-heroes.

ISBN: 9780241752197

Dimensions: 180mm x 110mm x 8mm

Weight: 91g

144 pages