The Meek One: A Fantastic Story : An Annotated Russian Reader (Paperback)

from TheIdleWoman

This bleak and puzzling story, originally published in 1876, is a tale of love gone wrong. Its narrator is a former army officer turned pawnbroker, who resigned from the army in disgrace to find that his brother-in-law had squandered the family's meagre fortune. Having clawed his way back to a se...

from SashaM

Misogynistic man is surprised when his young wife commits suicide after he has treated her like crap for a year. Then he realises he loved her.

from AndrewBlackman

Dostoevsky is one of my favourite writers. I discovered him in my teenage years, read as many of his books as I could get my hands on, and to be honest haven't read anything else by him in a long time. I still count him as one of my favourite writers, though, more on memory than anything else. Hi...

from AndrewBlackman

Dostoevsky is one of my favourite writers. I discovered him in my teenage years, read as many of his books as I could get my hands on, and to be honest haven't read anything else by him in a long time. I still count him as one of my favourite writers, though, more on memory than anything else. Hi...

from Theresedvir

I was disappointed. It is far away from Dosteoyevsky's classics... In a way I had the feeling that he was retracing some of the major elements common in his novels...women's struggle in a society where men are the big deciders... Women are not so weak and absolutely not that vulnerable to commit ...