The Eternal Husband

Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486114406
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 131

Book Description
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.

The Eternal Husband

Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486465721
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 131

Poor Folk and Other Stories

Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141907827
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
With their penetrating psychological insight and their emphasis on human dignity, respect and forgiveness, Dostoyevsky's early short stories contain the seeds of the themes that came to his major novels. Poor Folk, the author's first great literary triumph, is the story of a tragic relationship between an impoverished copy clerk and a young seamstress, told through their passionate letters to each other. In The Landlady Dostoyevsky portrays a dreamer hero who is captivated by a curious couple and becomes their lodger. Mr Prokharchin, inspired by a true story, is a sly comedy centring on an eccentric miser, and Polzunkov is a powerful character sketch which, in common with the other tales in this volume, questions the very nature of existence.

The Gambler

Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Russia
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Book Description

Poor Folk and Other Stories

Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8026837231
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 271

Book Description
This carefully crafted ebook: "Poor Folk and Other Stories" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Inspired by the works of Gogol, Pushkin, and Karamzin, as well as English and French authors, Poor Folk is written in the form of letters between the two main characters, Makar Devushkin and Varvara Dobroselova, who are poor second cousins. The novel showcases the life of poor people, their relationship with rich people, and poverty in general, all common themes of literary naturalism. Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. His literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmosphere of 19th-century Russia. Table of Contents: Poor Folk The Landlady Mr. Prokhartchin Polzunkov The Honest Thief Fyodor Dostoyevsky, A Study by Aimée Dostoyevsky (Biography)

Poor People

Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher: Alma Classics
ISBN: 9781847491909
Category : Epistolary fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Introducing the first in a long line of underground characters, Dostoevsky's first full-length work of fiction is a poignant, tragi-comic tale which foreshadows the greatness of his later novelsPresented as a series of letters between the humble copying-clerk Devushkin and a distant relative of his, the young Varenka, this book brings to the fore the underclass of St. Petersburg, who live at the margins of society in the most appalling conditions and abject poverty. As Devushkin tries to help Varenka improve her plight by selling anything he can, he is reduced to even more desperate circumstances and seeks refuge in alcohol, looking on helplessly as the object of his impossible love is taken away from him."

Autobiography of a Corpse

Author: Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590176960
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
An NYRB Classics Original Winner of the 2014 PEN Translation Prize Winner of the 2014 Read Russia Prize The stakes are wildly high in Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s fantastic and blackly comic philosophical fables, which abound in nested narratives and wild paradoxes. This new collection of eleven mind-bending and spellbinding tales includes some of Krzhizhanovsky’s most dazzling conceits: a provincial journalist who moves to Moscow finds his existence consumed by the autobiography of his room’s previous occupant; the fingers of a celebrated pianist’s right hand run away to spend a night alone on the city streets; a man’s lifelong quest to bite his own elbow inspires both a hugely popular circus act and a new refutation of Kant. Ordinary reality cracks open before our eyes in the pages of Autobiography of a Corpse, and the extraordinary spills out.

The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 030782408X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
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. Exploring many of the same themes as in his longer works, these small masterpieces move from the tender and romantic White Nights, an archetypal nineteenth-century morality tale of pathos and loss, to the famous Notes from the Underground, a story of guilt, ineffectiveness, and uncompromising cynicism, and the first major work of existential literature. Among Dostoevsky's prototypical characters is Yemelyan in The Honest Thief, whose tragedy turns on an inability to resist crime. Presented in chronological order, in David Magarshack's celebrated translation, this is the definitive edition of Dostoevsky's best stories.

White Nights and Other Stories

Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206

Book Description
Although Russian fiction master Fyodor Dostoyevsky is best known for epic, sprawling novels that detail psychological and philosophical problems in minute detail, his more concise work is also remarkable in its scope and depth. 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.

Lectures on Dostoevsky

Author: Joseph Frank
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691178968
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 254

Book Description
Poor Folk -- The Double -- The House of the Dead -- Notes from Underground -- Crime and Punishment -- The Idiot -- The Brothers Karamazov -- Appendix I: Selected Film Adaptations of Dostoevsky's Novels -- Appendix II: "Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky" by David Foster Wallace.