Great Short Works of Dostoyevsky

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Book Overview

The shorter works of one of the world's greatest writers, including the classics The Gambler and Notes From the Underground.The short works of Dostoevsky exist in the very large shadow of his... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060830816
• ISBN13: 9780060830816
• Release Date: November 1968
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 741 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 4.2" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Russian Beauty

After reading The House of the Dead, I was given this collection of short stories. I easily drown in each story, always ready to begin the next tale upon finishing the previous.

Great Short Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky

This is a wonderful book for anyone just entering into Russian literature (or someone who has yet to gain a passion for reading). Dostoevsky is very poignant and clearly articulates the feelings humans go through, including the inner turmoil associated with daily life... Great night time reading.

An Excellent Collection

This collection can be recommended to anyone interested in sampling Dostoyesvky's shorter fiction; it contains within the one volume a good number of stories which in other editions (Penguin and Oxford) fill more than one volume.The short stories themselves are just sublime and should not be overlooked by those who tend to think that the best work will be necessarily contained in the novels. The Double is my favourite; it is an especially humorous tale, though sombre in its overall vision. Notes from the Underground is seminal, of course, and is probably the most important story included; A Gentle Creature is disturbing.

Unrelenting Brilliance

One night i decided to "start" the first story in the book, The Double. I was up a little past four in the morning, finishing the story. I was simply enthralled. I continued in this fashion for eight days; until i had finished all eight stories. Dostoevsky seems to have endowed every piece of everything he ever wrote with complete brilliance. Though my favorite story in the collection was Notes From the Underground, all the stories were generally entertaining and almost always enlightening.