"The Crocodile" is a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky that was first published in 1865 in his magazine Epoch. A true story of how a gentleman of a certain age and of respectable appearance was swallowed alive by the crocodi...

The Double centers on a government clerk who goes mad. It deals with the internal psychological struggle of its main character, Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, who repeatedly encounters someone who is his exact double in appearance but con...

The discovery of a mysterious doppelganger turns Goliadkin's life upside down in The Double, while the psychological novel The Gambler combines aspects of two obsessions: the love of a rejecting woman and the fever of gambling, in an ...

The Eternal Husband is a novella by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky that was first published in 1870 in Zarya magazine. The novella's plot revolves around the complicated relationship between Velchaninov and Trusotsky, the husban...

The Gambler is a short novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky about a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian general. The novella reflects Dostoyevsky's own addiction to roulette, which was in more ways than one the insp...

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The Gospel in Dostoyevsky vividly reveals – as none of his novels can on their own – the common thread of the great God-haunted Russian's questioning faith. Drawn from The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot, Crime and Punishment,...

The book "" The Grand Inquisitor "" has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a moder...

Completed six years after Dostoyevsky's own term as a convict, The House of the Dead is a semi-autobiographical account of life in a Siberian prison camp, and the physical and mental effects it has on those who are sentenced to inhabi...

Completed six years after Dostoyevsky's own term as a convict, The House of the Dead is a semi-autobiographical account of life in a Siberian prison camp, and the physical and mental effects it has on those who are sentenced to inhabi...

First published in 1862 after Dostoyevsky's imprisonment in a Siberian labor camp, "The House of the Dead" is a collection of memoirs, related by themes, that portrays the horrific life of convicts. The author drew on his ow...

The most autobiographical novel by the author of Crime and Punishmentand The Brothers Karamazov—and the namesake of Elif Batuman’s debut novel, The Idiot\r\n  \r\n Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, t...

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

Generally considered something of a departure for Dostoyevsky, The Landlady was first published in 1847, when most of the author's classic novels were still in his future. Set in Saint Petersburg, the novella tells of a brooding, rec...

IN UNDERTAKING to describe the recent and strange incidents in our town, till latelywrapped in uneventful obscurity, I find myself forced in absence of literary skill to beginmy story rather far back, that is to say, with certain biog...

Uncle's Dream by Fyodor Dostoyevsky was written following his five year exile to Siberia where he was sent to serve in a hard labor camp. Following what could only have been a harrowing and harsh existence in Russia's infamous prison ...

Within Uncle's Dream and The Permanent Husband are two of Dostoyevsky's novellas. Uncle's Dreams is narrated with objectivity, satire, and social reportage in its comic send-up of small-town manners and morals. It has been described ...

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (1821-81) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, and philosopher. His literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmoshpheres of ...

From the author of Crime and Punishment comes this remarkable collection of short fiction. A selection of ten compelling tales, steeped in Dostoyevsky's characteristic themes of spiritual torment and psychological struggle, evoke life...