The Complete Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Complete Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a compilation which contains the entire output of Dostoevsky's short stories available in English.

White Nights
A Gentle Spirit
An Honest Thief
A Faint Heart
A Novel in Nine Letters
A Christmas Tree and a Wedding
Another Man's Wife
Polzunkov
Bobok
A Little Hero
Mr. Prohartchin
The Peasant Marey
Dream of a Ridiculous Man
The Heavenly Christmas Tree
A Nasty Anecdote
The Crocodile

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was born in Moscow in 1821. His debut, the epistolary novella Poor Folk (1846), made his name. In 1849 he was arrested for involvement with the politically subversive 'Petrashevsky circle' and until 1854 he lived in a convict prison in Omsk, Siberia. From this experience came The House of the Dead (1860-2). In 1860 he began the journal Vremya (Time). Already married, he fell in love with one of his contributors, Appollinaria Suslova, eighteen years his junior, and developed a ruinous passion for roulette. After the death of his first wife, Maria, in 1864, Dostoyevsky completed Notes from Underground and began work towards Crime and Punishment (1866). The major novels of his late period are The Idiot (1868), Demons (1871-2) and The Brothers Karamazov (1879-80). He died in 1881.

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