This new collection includes some of Dostoyevsky's most troubling, moving, and poignant short stories, such as White Nights, A Disgraceful Affair, and The Dream of the Ridiculous Man.
This new collection includes some of Dostoyevsky's most troubling, moving, and poignant short stories, such as White Nights, A Disgraceful Affair, and The Dream of the Ridiculous Man.
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.
Fyodor Dostoevsky was born in Moscow in 1821. He died in 1881, having written some of the most celebrated works in the history of literature, including CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, THE IDIOT, and THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV.
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