"Oh, my friend, my entire life has been a dream. I kept dreaming and dreaming, but I never lived; I was proud, I scorned the herd - yet...

When it comes to the big names in Russian literature there is always a choice to go for one of the well known novels or if you have read tho...

The Fyodor Dostoyevsky literary career had to start somewhere and this was his first major work, which won him the plaudits of many in the ...

Mr Prokharchin Again madness is a theme along with poverty. The idea of people living in a corner of a room in complete poverty scraping alo...

Having finished Poor Folk it only seems right to carry on and get through the other three stories in this volume. The longest is the first a...

This book doesn’t quite end in the way you expect – with death or some tragic loss of employment – but it is moving nonetheless. The clerk i...

"Poor and unhappy people ought to steer clear of one another, so as not to catch a greater degree of infection." It is odd to be r...

This story put Fyodor Dostoevsky on the map and is one of his books that I have managed to miss. It is a classic case of seeing it gathering...

This is an odd book in terms of both the way it is written and the subject matter. Fyodor Dostoevsky heads to Europe to follow in the foots...

He is really ranting against the French. He comments on their respect for eloquence remarking that they seem to appreciate anyone who talks ...

Dostoevsky finally starts to put down some thoughts on Paris and London. The British come out of it better than the French with their charac...

The introduction by Kyril Fitzlyon sets this up in an odd way reducing your expectations from the very start. “The neglect from which Summer...