Uncle's Dream and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140445188 ISBN 13: 9780140445183

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1989

Synopsis

Gone is the contained, brooding, dream-prone atmopshere of his earlier stories; instead "Uncle's Dreams" is narrated with firm objectivity, combining satire, social reportage, puppet theatre and farce in its comic send-up of small-town manners and morals.

Dostoyevsky's inspiration for "The Meek Girl" came from a newspaper report on the suicide of a seamstress who plunged from a garret window, holding a religious icon in her hands. According to the critic John Jones, it is "one of the most powerful studies of despair in world literature, a banging on closed doors imagined with abosolute fearlessness."

About this title

About the Author:

FyodorDostoyevsky (18211881), one of nineteenth-century Russias greatest novelists, spent four years in a convict prison in Siberia, after which he was obliged to enlist in the army. In later years his penchant for gambling sent him deeply into debt. Most of his important works were written after 1864, including Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov, all available from Penguin Classics.

Language Notes:

Text: English
Introduction: Russian

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0140445188
• ISBN 13: 9780140445183
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304