This collection, unique to the Modern Library, gathers seven of
Dostoevsky's key works and shows him to be equally adept at the
short story as with the novel. Exploring many of the same themes as
in his longer works, these small masterpieces move from the tender
and romantic White Nights, an archetypal nineteenth-century
morality tale of pathos and loss, to the famous Notes from the
Underground, a story of guilt, ineffectiveness, and uncompromising
cynicism, and the first major work of existential literature. Among
Dostoevsky's prototypical characters is Yemelyan in The Honest
Thief, whose tragedy turns on an inability to resist crime.
Presented in chronological order, in David Magarshack's celebrated
translation, this is the definitive edition of Dostoevsky's best
stories.
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