Wild happiness: Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak

Dmitry Narkisovich Mamin-Sibiryak (1852-1912) compared contemporaries with the largest French writer Emil Zola.
The novel “Wild Happiness” tells about the gold wire, which was found by the main character Gordey Bragin. Gold is for many a test that few pass. The writer himself considered it necessary to tell about the problems of the Ural life of that time, which included the “golden fever”, caused by the rapid development of capitalism and the discovery of new gold deposits. According to the writer, he tried to talk about how, in the distant Ural hole, “Wild wealth destroyed more than one good family, strong with ancient principles.”
The Mountain Nest is one of the best novels of the writer, telling about the stubborn and merciless struggle between the owners of the Ural factories for ore mines. As the author himself wrote, “under the name of the“ mountain nest ”in the Urals, the Institute of State Mining Engineers used loud fame in the Urals; but I give this term wider …

Author
Mamin-Sibiryak Dmitry Narkisovich
Publisher
Veche, 2014
Series
Siberiad

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