The Meek One
1st Edition
Published on 26. February 2015
64 pages
978-0-14-139749-8 (ISBN)
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'I could see that she was still terribly afraid, but I didn't soften anything; instead, seeing that she was afraid I deliberately intensified it.'
Based on a St Petersburg news report, Dostoyevsky's searing tale of a man who drives his wife to suicide.
Based on a St Petersburg news report, Dostoyevsky's searing tale of a man who drives his wife to suicide.
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English
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London
United Kingdom
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0,37 MB
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978-0-14-139749-8 (9780141397498)
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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was born in Moscow in 1821. His debut, the epistolary novella Poor Folk(1846), made his name. In 1849 he was arrested for involvement with the politically subversive 'Petrashevsky circle' and until 1854 he lived in a convict prison in Omsk, Siberia. From this experience came The House of the Dead (1860-2). In 1860 he began the journal Vremya (Time). Already married, he fell in love with one of his contributors, Appollinaria Suslova, eighteen years his junior, and developed a ruinous passion for roulette. After the death of his first wife, Maria, in 1864, Dostoyevsky completed Notes from Underground and began work towards Crime and Punishment (1866). The major novels of his late period are The Idiot (1868), Demons(1871-2) and The Brothers Karamazov (1879-80). He died in 1881.
