The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoyevsky

This selection gathers Dostoyevsky's shorter fiction from the 1840s through the 1870s: Petersburg sketches of clerks and dreamers, a white-night romance, and later confessional tales of isolation, sudden violence, and moral crisis. Typical contents include White Nights, Notes from Underground, A Gentle Creature, and The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, though the exact list varies by edition. The pieces share cramped rooms, chance meetings, and speakers who justify themselves at length. The volume is an anthology of independent stories and novellas, not a novel cycle and not a biography.

Quarter-bound in maroon gilt title blocked buckram, with monochrome picture printed cloth covers. Maroon endpapers. Plain slipcase.