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Fyodor Dostoevsky Collection: The Wedding, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

Fyodor Dostoevsky Collection: The Wedding, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

Classics
Published
2012
Language
English

Synopsis

"The Wedding": Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky is considered one of the greatest Russian writers. His works have had a profound and lasting effect on 20th-century literature. His psychological penetration into the human soul had, in novels like Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, a profound influence on the 20th century novel. He also wrote a number of brilliant short stories along these same lines. "The Wedding" is one of his best."The Dream of a Ridiculous Man": Dostoevsky is primarily known for his monumental works like Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov. However, he also wrote many excellent shorter works that embody the same exploration of human psychology on a smaller scale. "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" is one of his best short pieces. Virginia Woolf says of Dostoevsky, "Out of Shakespeare there is no more exciting reading."

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Classics

About the author

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821–1881) was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, essayist and philosopher, widely regarded as one of the greatest novelists in Russian and world literature. Born in Moscow, his life was transformed by four years of imprisonment and exile in Siberia after his involvement with the Petrashevsky Circle, an experience that shaped the psychological depth of his later fiction. His major novels — including Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), Demons...