Poor Folk and Other Stories
$22.63
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
2 April 1989
Summary
The Seeds of Genius: Early Tales by Dostoyevsky
A collection of some of Dostoyevsky’s finest short stories. 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 seams…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140445053 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140445056 |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Author: | Fyodor Dostoyevsky, David McDuff |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 2 April 1989 |
| Weight: | 218g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 17mm |
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About The Author
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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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