The Complete Works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Novels, Short Stories and Autobiographical Writings
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Complete Works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Novels, Short Stories and Autobiographical Writings
The Entire Opus of the Great Russian Novelist, Journalist and Philosopher, including a Biography of the Author
Translated by Constance Garnett, C.J. Hogarth, Frederick Whishaw, Ethel Colburn Mayne, John Middleton Murry, S.S. Koteliansky
e-artnow, 2015
Contact: [email protected]
ISBN 978-80-268-3713-8
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION:
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
NOVELS:
The Raw Youth (The Adolescent)
NOVELLAS:
SHORT STORIES:
The Grand Inquisitor (Chapter from The Brothers Karamazov)
Another Man's Wife or, The Husband under the Bed
The Christmas Tree and the Wedding
An Unpleasant Predicament (A Nasty Story)
LETTERS AND MEMOIRS:
Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoyevsky to his Family and Friends
Pages from the Journal of an Author, Fyodor Dostoevsky
BIOGRAPHY:
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, A Study by Aimée Dostoyevsky
INTRODUCTION:
A SURVEY OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE
by Isabel Florence Hapgood
All the writers of the ‘40’s of the nineteenth century had their individual peculiarities. But in this respect, Feódor Mikháilovitch Dostoévsky (1821-1880) was even more sharply separated from all the rest by his characteristics, which almost removed him from the ranks of the writers of the epoch, and gave him a special place in literature.
The chief cause of this distinction lies in the fact that while most of the other writers sprang from the country regions, being members of the landed gentry class, Dostoévsky represents the plebeian, toiling class of society, a nervously choleric son of the town; and in the second place, while the majority of them were well-to-do, Dostoévsky alone in the company belonged to the class of educated strugglers with poverty, which had recently made its reappearance.
His father was staff physician in the Márya Hospital in Moscow, and he was the second son in a family of seven children. The whole family lived in two rooms, an anteroom and kitchen, which comprised the quarters allotted to the post by the government.