A Disgraceful Affair: Stories

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title A Disgraceful Affair: Stories
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:224
Dimensions(mm): Height 181,Width 127
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780061773747
ClassificationsDewey:891.733
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Imprint HarperPerennial
Publication Date 1 June 2009
Publication Country United States

Description

The short works of Dostoevsky exist in the very large shadow of his astonishing longer novels, but they too are among literature's most revered works and offer keys to understanding the themes in his longer works. Contained in this volume are the short stories "White Nights," "A Disgraceful Affair," and "The Dream of the Ridiculous Man," three of Dostoevsky's most troubling, moving, and poignant works. Alongside A DISGRACEFUL AFFAIR, Harper Perennial will publish the short fiction of Stephen Crane, Herman Melville, Willa Cather, Leo Tolstoy, and Oscar Wilde to be packaged in a beautifully designed, boldly colorful boxset in the aim to attract contemporary fans of short fiction to these revered masters of the form. Also, in each of these selections will appear a story from one of the new collections being published in 2009. A story from Barb Johnson's forthcoming collection will be printed at the back of this volume.

Author Biography

Fyodor Dostoevsky was born in Moscow in 1821. He died in 1881, having written some of the most celebrated works in the history of literature, including CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, THE IDIOT, and THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV.