Poor People: A Novel and Stories of the 1840's
The frailty of human disposition as well as weaknesses on every level is presented. With subtle passions and sincere feelings that are taken advantage of, the work is regarded as one of the outstanding pieces of Russian Literature.
This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Insulted and Humiliated’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’.
Humiliated and Insulted also known in English as The Insulted and Humiliated, The Insulted and the Injured or Injury and Insult - is a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, first published in 1861 in the monthly magazine Vremya.
At the centre of the story are a young struggling author, an orphaned teenager and a depraved aristocrat, who not only foreshadows the great figures of evil in Dostoevsky's later fiction, but is a powerful and original presence in his own ...
On 26th January 1881 Dostoyevsky suffered a pulmonary haemorrhage. After the second the doctors gave a poor prognosis. A third haemorrhage followed shortly afterwards. Fyodor Dostoyevsky died on 9th February, 1881.
This volume will be of interest to social and moral philosophers, legal and human rights theorists, practitioners and students.
A poverty-stricken Russian girl tries to survive, which depends on the largesse of others.
In Shame Interrupted, bestselling author Edward T. Welch empowers readers to live in light of the gospel of God's grace, which breaks the lingering power of shame.
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.