| A Disgraceful Affair: Stories Contributor(s): Dostoyevsky, Fyodor (Author) |
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ISBN: 0061773743 ISBN-13: 9780061773747 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $9.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2009 Annotation: A towering literary giant, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was--and remains--unparalleled in his understanding of the darkness that resides in the farthest corners of the human soul. Although his shorter works have been overshadowed by his astonishing novels--"Crime and Punishment" and "The Brothers Karamazov," to name but two--his stories and novellas deserve a place among the great literary inventions of the modern era, offering insight into the themes and ideas that drive his longer fiction. Included in this volume are some of Dostoyevsky's most troubling, moving, and poignant short works. Bonus story |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Hispanic & Latino - Fiction | Coming Of Age |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Harper Perennial Classic Stories |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 4.9" W x 7" (0.40 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The short works of Dostoevsky exist in the very large shadow of his astonishing longer novels, but they too are among literature's most revered works and offer keys to understanding the themes in his longer works. Contained in this volume are the short stories "White Nights," "A Disgraceful Affair," and "The Dream of the Ridiculous Man," three of Dostoevsky's most troubling, moving, and poignant works. Alongside A DISGRACEFUL AFFAIR, Harper Perennial will publish the short fiction of Stephen Crane, Herman Melville, Willa Cather, Leo Tolstoy, and Oscar Wilde to be packaged in a beautifully designed, boldly colorful boxset in the aim to attract contemporary fans of short fiction to these revered masters of the form. Also, in each of these selections will appear a story from one of the new collections being published in 2009. A story from Barb Johnson's forthcoming collection will be printed at the back of this volume. |
Contributor Bio(s): Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: - Fyodor Dostoyevsky was born in Moscow in 1821. He died in 1881 having written some of the most celebrated works in the history of literature, including Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov. |