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The Eternal Husband and Other Stories

By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

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Jan 03, 2012 | 368 Pages

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    About The Eternal Husband and Other Stories

    From Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Doctor Zhivago, and Anna Karenina, which was an Oprah Book Club pick and million-copy bestseller, The Eternal Husband and Other Stories brings together five of Dostoevsky’s short masterpieces.
     
    Filled with many of the themes and concerns central to his great novels, these short works display the full range of Dostoevsky’s genius. The centerpiece of this collection, the short novel The Eternal Husband, describes the almost surreal meeting of a cuckolded widower and his dead wife’s lover. Dostoevsky’s dark brilliance and satiric vision infuse the other four tales with all-too-human characters. The Eternal Husband and Other Stories is sterling Dostoevsky—a collection of emotional power and uncompromising insight into the human condition.

    About The Eternal Husband and Other Stories

    The Eternal Husband and Other Stories brings together five of Dostoevsky’s short masterpieces rendered into English by two of the most celebrated Dostoevsky translators of our time. Filled with many of the themes and concerns central to his great novels, these short works display the full range of Dostoevsky’s genius. The centerpiece of this collection, the short novel The Eternal Husband, describes the almost surreal meeting of a cuckolded widower and his dead wife’s lover. Dostoevsky’s dark brilliance and satiric vision infuse the other four tales with all-too-human characters, including a government official who shows up uninvited at an underling’s wedding to prove his humanity; a self-deceiving narrator who struggles futilely to understand his wife’s suicide; and a hack writer who attends a funeral and ends up talking with the dead.

    The Eternal Husband and Other Stories is sterling Dostoevsky—a collection of emotional power and uncompromising insight into the human condition.

    About The Eternal Husband and Other Stories

    The Eternal Husband and Other Stories brings together five of Dostoevsky’s short masterpieces rendered into English by two of the most celebrated Dostoevsky translators of our time. Filled with many of the themes and concerns central to his great novels, these short works display the full range of Dostoevsky’s genius. The centerpiece of this collection, the short novel The Eternal Husband, describes the almost surreal meeting of a cuckolded widower and his dead wife’s lover. Dostoevsky’s dark brilliance and satiric vision infuse the other four tales with all-too-human characters, including a government official who shows up uninvited at an underling’s wedding to prove his humanity; a self-deceiving narrator who struggles futilely to understand his wife’s suicide; and a hack writer who attends a funeral and ends up talking with the dead.

    The Eternal Husband and Other Stories is sterling Dostoevsky—a collection of emotional power and uncompromising insight into the human condition.

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    About Fyodor Dostoevsky

    Fyodor Mikailovich Dostoevsky’s life was as dark and dramatic as the great novels he wrote. He was born in Moscow in 1821. A short first novel, Poor Folk (1846), brought him instant success, but his writing career was cut short by his… More about Fyodor Dostoevsky

    About Fyodor Dostoevsky

    Fyodor Mikailovich Dostoevsky’s life was as dark and dramatic as the great novels he wrote. He was born in Moscow in 1821. A short first novel, Poor Folk (1846), brought him instant success, but his writing career was cut short by his… More about Fyodor Dostoevsky

    About Fyodor Dostoevsky

    Fyodor Mikailovich Dostoevsky’s life was as dark and dramatic as the great novels he wrote. He was born in Moscow in 1821. A short first novel, Poor Folk (1846), brought him instant success, but his writing career was cut short by his… More about Fyodor Dostoevsky

    Product Details

    Category: Fiction | Fiction Classics

    Paperback | $15.00
    Published by Modern Library
    Jan 03, 2012 | 368 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780812983371

    Category: Fiction | Fiction Classics

    Mass Market Paperback | $5.99
    Published by Bantam Classics
    Sep 05, 2000 | 384 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-7/8 | ISBN 9780553214444

    Category: Fiction | Fiction Classics

    Ebook | $5.99
    Published by Bantam Classics
    May 04, 2011 | 384 Pages | ISBN 9780307793614

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    “One finally gets the musical whole of Dostoevsky’s original.”—The New York Times Book Review, on Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s translation of The Brothers Karamazov

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