Hesperus Classics: The Double : A St Petersburg Poem (Paperback)

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An amazing story about obsession and paranoia. It is a psychological miasma that also reflects heavily upon Russia during the time that Dostoevsky lived in. There is so much great literary value in this. It can be interpreted many different ways, and the subtext of many of the themes that keep re...

from KateClark

This is my first foray into the world of Dostoevsky, and appropriate as it so differs from his later period of writing (after hard labour). While I accept this work as a psychological study, it seems to me this book has many other levels to it also. This is a 'fantastic' novella. The fantastic 'i...

from antao

(Original Review, 1981-03-23) About how to interpret or read a text. And I am going to use 'he' as my generic pronoun because Hammett was a he. One perfectly valid way is indeed to try to stick as closely as possible to exactly what is in the text and maybe some biographic info, at least a rough ...

from wktarin

Exhausting and bathotic.

from laurensx

Having read and enjoyed "Crime and Punishment" years ago, I really looked forward to reading "The Double". I found, reading this book was akin to walking through sludge in a pair of bedroom slippers. Dostoevsky introduces the reader to Yakov Petrovitch Golyadkin, an office worker living in Moscow...