Eight short masterworks, including White Nights, Notes from Underground, The Gambler, A Gentle Creature, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and others.

Great Short Works of Dostoyevsky

DOSTOYEVSKY, FYODOR

Literature & Fiction

Perennial

The short works of Dostoevsky exist in the very large shadow of his astonishing longer novels, but they too are among literature's most revered works and offer keys to understanding the themes in his longer works. Contained in this volume are the short stories "White Nights," "A Disgraceful Affair," and "The Dream of the Ridiculous Man," three of Dostoevsky's most troubling, moving, and poignant works.
Alongside A DISGRACEFUL AFFAIR, Harper Perennial will publish the short fiction of Stephen Crane, Herman Melville, Willa Cather, Leo Tolstoy, and Oscar Wilde to be packaged in a beautifully designed, boldly colorful boxset in the aim to attract contemporary fans of short fiction to these revered masters of the form. Also, in each of these selections will appear a story from one of the new collections being published in 2009. A story from Barb Johnson's forthcoming collection will be printed at the back of this volume.

A Disgraceful Affair: Stories (Harper Perennial Classic Stories)

Dramas & Plays

Harper-perennial

Crime and Punishment

Translated by Constance Garnett, Introduction by Ernest J. Simmons

Literary

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Translated by Constance Garnett, Introduction by Marc Slonim

The Brothers Karamazov

A troubled young man commits the perfect crime: the murder of a vile pawnbroker whom no one will miss. Raskolnikov is desperate for money, but he convinces himself that his motive for the murder is to benefit mankind. So begins a tragic novel that illuminates the eternal struggle between human emotions and desire, and the harsh laws of ethics and justice. Part thriller and part philosophical meditation, this is a penetrating look at the core of human nature.

Genre Fiction

Random House UK Ltd.

Gambler Bobok A Nasty Story Tie In

Penguin Uk

About the Author\nFyodor���Dostoyevsky (1821���1881), one of nineteenth-century Russia���s greatest novelists, spent four years in a convict prison in Siberia, after which he was obliged to enlist in the army. In later years his penchant for gambling sent him deeply into debt. Most of his important works were written after 1864, including Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov, all available from Penguin Classics.

Penguin Classics

“What I am writing now is a tendentious thing,” Dostoyevsky wrote to a friend in connection with his first outline for The Devils. “I feel like saying everything as passionately as possible. (Let the nihilists and the Westerners scream that I am reactionary!) To hell with them. I shall say everything to the last word.” As Dostoyevsky predicted, The Devils, or The Possessed, was indeed denounced by radical critics as the work of a reactionary renegade. But radicals aside, it enjoyed great success both for its literary power and for its explicit and provocative politics; and for its story of Russian terrorists plotting violence and destruction, only to murder one of their own number. “Stavrogin’s Confession”, the section omitted when the novel first appeared, is included as an appendix to this volume.

The Devils: The Possessed (Penguin Classics)

Prince Myshkin, a good yet simple man, is out of place in the corrupt world created by Russia's ruling class.

The Idiot

This is a story of parricide and fraternal jealousy profoundly involving the questions of anarchism, atheism, and the existence of God.

The Brothers Karamazov: Volume 1

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Great Short Works of Dostoyevsky

A Disgraceful Affair: Stories (Harper Perennial Classic Stories)

Crime and Punishment

The Brothers Karamazov

Crime and Punishment

Gambler Bobok A Nasty Story Tie In

Crime and Punishment

The Devils: The Possessed (Penguin Classics)

The Idiot

The Brothers Karamazov: Volume 1