Presents a chronologically arranged collection of stories by the Russian author, including "White Nights," "A Gentle Creature," and "The Honest Thief," and contains biographical information and a reading group guide.
This collection, unique to the Modern Library, gathers seven of Dostoevsky's key works and shows him to be equally adept at the short story as with the novel.
A calendar with each day featuring a word or expression with a phonetic pronunciation guide and translation. Loaded with cultural titbits and fascinating observations on food, history, art, film, fashion,...
Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest and most prominent psychologists in world literature. In this book: The Brothers Karamazov Crime and Punishment Translator: Constance Garnett
The shorter works of one of the world's greatest writers, including The Gambler and Notes from Underground The short works of Dostoevsky exist in the very large shadow of his astonishing longer novels, but they too are among literature's ...
A rich and idle man confronts his dead mistress's husband in this psychological novel of duality. Powerful and accessible, it offers a captivating and revealing exploration of love, guilt, and hatred.
In the stories in this volume Dostoevsky explores both the figure of the dreamer divorced from reality and also his own ambiguous attitude to utopianism, themes central to many of his great novels.
Dostoyevsky did not only admire these qualities of Pushkin; he saw in them the revelation of the national ideal—a revelation and a prophecy. The prophetic spirit hovers over all Russian literature, or, at least, is perceptible in it to ...
Reproduction of the original: Short Stories by Fiodor Dostoievski
This collection of stories will please fans of classic Russian literature and Dostoyevsky buffs who are interested in sampling the author's forays into another format.
The stories in this volume demonstrate Dostoyevsky's genius for fusing caricature, irony and the grotesque to create a powerful dark humour.