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| Biographical Note | v | |
| Introduction | ix | |
| White Nights | 3 | |
| The Honest Thief | 59 | |
| The Christmas Tree and a Wedding | 79 | |
| The Peasant Marey | 89 | |
| Notes from the Underground | 95 | |
| A Gentle Creature | 215 | |
| The Dream of a Ridiculous Man | 263 | |
| Commentary | 287 | |
| Reading Group Guide | 291 |
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Brian Mangosing
reviewed The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky on August 26, 2012
The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky
I finally picked up Crime and Punishment and read the lengthy introduction. By the end of it, I decided to first read Notes from the Underground to get a sense of Dostoevsky's early versus later writings. In this edition, you get (published in chronological order except for The Peasant Marey):
White Nights
The Honest Thief
The Christmas Tree and a Wedding
The Peasant Marey
Notes from the Underground, which is really more of a novella than a short story
A Gentle Creature
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
As I read, I went from "Good God, why did no editor save him from verbosity and ponderousness" to the point of laughing out loud (Notes from the Underground), righteousness (A Gentle Creature), and admiring respect (The Dream of a Ridiculous Man). It's easy to see why Dostoevsky became known as a great observer of human psychology, especially with regard to how people relate to each other: the tendencies toward envy, greed, and resentment, and the need to exercise power over another person to make oneself (temporarily) feel superior. And most of all, the need to accept and forgive oneself for these human frailties. I'm looking forward to reading Crime and Punishment soon.
If you read only a couple of short things by Dostoevsky, I recommend Notes from the Underground and The Dream of a Ridiculous Man. Yay!
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