| Publication |
New York, Bantam Dell, 2008.
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| Description |
xxvi, 349pCream Spine
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| Series |
Bantam Classics
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| Summary/Abstract |
The volume's centerpiece is Dostoevsky's most classically perfect work, The Eternal Husband, which describes the almost surreal meeting of a cuckolded widower and his dead wife's lover. Along with this complete and unabridged short novel, Dostoevsky displays his dark brilliance and satiric vision in four tales that vividly portray his all-too-human subjects. From a government official who shows up uninvited at an underling's wedding to prove his humanity, to a self-deceiving narrator who struggles futilely to understand his wife's suicide; from a hack writer who attends a funeral and ends up talking with the dead, to the protagonist of "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man," the very last story Dostoevsky wrote, an ecstatic and deeply ironic vision of a society based on love, The Eternal Husband and Other Stories is sterling Dostoevsky.
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| Contents |
A nasty anecdote
The eternal husband
Bobok
The meek one
The dream of a ridiculous man
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| Standard Number |
9780553214444 Pb.
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