[Gutenberg 40745] • Short Stories

Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created collection of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's complete short stories and novellas. This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices.

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. Many of his works contain a strong emphasis on Christianity, and its message of absolute love, forgiveness and charity, explored within the realm of the individual, confronted with all of life's hardships and beauty. His major works include Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), Demons (1872) and The Brothers Karamazov (1880). Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest and most prominent psychologists in world literature. His novella Notes from Underground is considered to be one of the first works of existentialist literature.

Table of Contents:

SHORT STORIES:

The Grand Inquisitor (The Brothers Karamazov)

Mr. Prohartchin

A Novel in Nine Letters

Another Man's Wife or, The Husband under the Bed

A Faint Heart

Polzunkov

The Honest Thief

The Christmas Tree and The Wedding

White Nights

A Little Hero

An Unpleasant Predicament (A Nasty Story)

The Crocodile

Bobok

The Heavenly Christmas Tree

A Gentle Spirit

The Peasant Marey

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

Poor Folk

The Double

The Landlady

Uncle's Dream

Notes from Underground

The Gambler

The Permanent Husband

ESSAYS ON DOSTOYEVSKY:

A SURVEY OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE by Isabel Florence Hapgood

DOSTOYEVSKY AND HIS MESSAGE TO THE WORLD by Zinaida Vengerova

ON RUSSIAN NOVELISTS by William Lyon Phelps

Extract from 'AN OUTLINE OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE' by Maurice Baring

BIOGRAPHY

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, A Study by Aimée Dostoyevsky