About this title: Five stories that are considered to be Dostoevsky's best: "A Nasty Anecdote", the title story, and three stories from THE DIARY OF A WRITER. Many of Dostoevski's stories concentrate on decisive moments in the meagre existences of the poor and downtrodden. His four-year sentence to hard labor in Siberia, the result of his revolutionary activities, developed in Dostoevski an appreciation for the inner life of the common man that he never lost, and that is reflected in nearly all of his work.
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Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Bantam Classics
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780553214444ISBN:0553214446
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Spine creased well, little edge wear, pages clean. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 384 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Bantam Classics
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780553214444ISBN:0553214446
Description: New. Brand New! Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: 1967 re-print
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Macmillan Company, New York
Date Published: 1917
ISBN-13:9780434204021ISBN:0434204021
Description: Fair in fair jacket. and Other Stories. Cloth over boards, glued binding, 323 pages, EX-LIBRARY, not a pretty book, covers/copy yellowed due age, library markings removed, covers smudged/stained, shelfworn, markings on front flyleaf from tape on cover, lower corner title page torn, several pages including publisher info page torn away, library stamp on pg 27, foxxing & dogearing in copy, good reading copy. Translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett. read more
Binding: Hardback with paper jacket
Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd
Date Published: 1950
ISBN-13:9780434204021ISBN:0434204021
Description: VERY GOOD. No ISBN. New impression 1950. Edges faded and slightly soiled. Some spots on endpapers. Inside clean. Dustjacket good with some wear to edges and fading to spine. Main language English. Weight 368g. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Unknown
Date Published: 1917-01-01
ISBN-13:9780434204021ISBN:0434204021
Description: Very Good. 1974 reprint. Binding is tight and square. Text is clean and bright. We recommend PRIORITY MAIL for even faster delivery! Careful packaging and fast shipping. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: William Heinemann
Date Published: [1917 / 1974]
ISBN-13:9780434204021ISBN:0434204021
Description: Very Good. {VG/VG} Hardback with Dust Jacket. 1974 reprint. Translated by Constance Garnett. Red and yellow dust jacket with black and yellow letters. Very light shelfwear and egdewear. The Collected Edition. read more
Description: Good. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Description: Good. Only lightly used. Book has minimal wear to cover and binding. A few pages may have small creases and minimal underlining. Book selection as BIG as Texas. read more
Description: Good. Only lightly used. Book has minimal wear to cover and binding. A few pages may have small creases and minimal underlining. Book selection as BIG as Texas. read more
Description: DOSTOEVSKY'S SHORT MASTERPIECES BROUGHT TOGETHER IN A BRILLIANT NEW TRANSLATION The Eternal Husband and Other Stories brings together five of Dostoevsky's short masterpieces rendered into English by two of the most celebrated Dostoevsky translators o... read more
"The title story is a novella. That is the part I read. "The Eternal Husband" is the model for Saul Bellow's novel, THE VICTIM. Having read and liked THE VICTIM, I decided to read Dostoevsky's novella. I read it in the translation by Pevear and Volokhonsky. (That's the Bantam edition with the Magritte-like painting on the cover, with the man's back to us.) Dostoevsky's masterpiece is not only the model for Bellow's book, it is the blueprint. Bellow's genius was to introduce the theme of antisemitism into Dostoevsky's story of a Christian sinner and his Christian nemesis. Even what I took to be an inserted set-piece in THE VICTIM reflects what amounts to a set-piece in THE ETERNAL HUSBAND. While Dostoevsky's scene advances the plot and the Bellow scene doesn't, both have a discussion of how to be human while producing art -- singing, in Dostoevsky's book and acting in Bellow's -- and both discussions are in scenes in both books showing the protagonist suddenly enjoying himself in lively company. Saul Bellow matched Dostoevsky almost point-for-point in THE VICTIM"
""No artistic salon singer could ever have achieved such an effect. In this romance, the intensity of the passion rises and grows with every line, every word; precisely because of this extraordinary intensity, the slightest falseness, the slightest exaggeration or untruth -- which one gets away with so easily in opera -- would here ruin and distort the whole meaning.""
"If you've never read Dostoevsky's shorter works, you should really get on that. There's some fantastic satire in here, some of his best humor, and some really heart-wrenching stuff. If you're into undiscovered gems of great authors, this is a great collection with which to start."
"I liked all these pieces. Notably, however, read this for Bobok (a funny short piece about death) and The Dream of a Ridiculous Man. As a note, I wouldn't recommend reading The Dream of a Ridiculous Man until reading most, if not all, of the major pieces by Dostoevsky: this little piece tells everything."
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