About this title: Accompanied by notes and commentary, a collection of short works by the celebrated author of Crime and Punishment includes such classics as White Nights, Notes from the Underground, The Eternal Husband, The Gambler, and The Double, among others. Reissue.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper & Row
Date Published: 1968
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Edition: Reissue
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: PERENNIAL
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780060726461ISBN:0060726466
Description: New. The shorter works of one of the world's greatest writers, including The Gambler and Notes from Underground The short works of Dostoevsky exist in the very large shadow of his astonishing longer novels, but they too are among literature's most revered... read more
Edition: First Perennial Classic Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Harper & Row, New York
Date Published: 1968
Description: Softcover. Reading copy. The stories included in this volume are The Double (1846), White Nights (1848), A Disgraceful Affair (1862), Notes From The Underground (1864), The Gambler (1866), The Eternal Husband (1870), A Gentle Creature (1876) and The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877). Translated into English from the Russian by George Bird, David Magarshack, Nora Gottlieb, and Constance Garnett. read more
Description: Good. 1968 Paperback. 741pp. With an introduction by Ronald Hingley First edition copy. All books in stock. We ship daily from our warehouse. Over 200, 000 customers served online! Our feedback reflects our service...."Fast delivery, great seller", "Fantastic, came right away and was in perfect condition--thanks! " read more
"Odd how certain authors click at one time of life and not another. "The Eternal Husband"! Could have, should have been written today. But of course this is a different world. Pritchett points out that for Dostoevsky psychology *was* the plot and subject, not just motivation or causality for the character's actions, as it is in our post-Freudian world."
"Loved each and every one of these stories...particularly, "The Gambler", "Notes from Underground" (although I prefer the Michael Katz translation), "A Disgraceful Affair", "A Gentle Creature", and "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man". Volumes could be written about each. I'm sure many have already. I'll just cite a quote to display the piercing quality of Dostoevsky's philosophical exploration:
"Why, we don't even know where this 'real life' lives nowadays, what it really is, and what it's called. Leave us alone without books and we'll get confused and lose our way at once--we won't know what to join, what to hold on to, what to love or what to hate, what to respect or what to despise. We're even oppressed by being men--men with real bodies and blood of OUR VERY OWN. We're ashamed of it; we consider it a disgrace and we strive to become some kind of impossible 'general-human-beings.' We're stillborn; for some time now we haven't been conceived by living fathers; we like it more and more. We're developing a taste for it. Soon we'll conceive of a way to be born from ideas..."
--the underground man in "Notes from Underground"
(we could easily substitute "entertainment" for "books" in our day and age)"
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