The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky by Fyodor Dostoevsky, David Magarshack (Translator) an eighty-year-old woman slips into

an eighty-year-old woman slips into a deep depression after the death of her husband

violent results

hunched creature that keeps its own secrets buried by a riverbank: the undiscovered killer Cyrus Nairn

a Christian missionary who entered a World Brotherhood deep in Asia

positive thinking or anything of the sort

The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky by Fyodor Dostoevsky, David Magarshack (Translator) an eighty-year-old woman slips intoThis collection, unique to the Modern Library, gathers seven of Dostoevsky's key works and shows him to be equally adept at the short story as with the novel. Exploring many of the same themes as in his longer works, these small masterpieces move from the tender and romantic White Nights, an archetypal nineteenth century morality tale of pathos and loss, to the famous Notes from the Underground, a story of guilt, ineffectiveness, and uncompromising