Previously in the Dostoevsky for Parents and Children series:  Varenka’s Memoirs (from the novel Poor Folk, 1846 [1883, 1887, 1897, DPC I]) At The Select Boarding School (from the novel The Adolescent, 1875 [1883, 1897, DPC II]) The Merchant’s Story (from the novel The Adolescent, 1875 [1897, DPC IV]) The Peasant Marey (from The Diary Of A Writer, January 1876 [1883, 1897, DPC III]) {In square brackets…

Previously in the Dostoevsky for Parents and Children series:  Varenka’s Memoirs (from the novel Poor Folk, 1846 [1883, 1887, 1897, DPC I]) At The Select Boarding School (from the novel The Adolescent, 1875 [1883, 1897, DPC II]) The Peasant Marey (from The Diary Of A Writer, January 1876 [1883, 1897, DPC III]) {In square brackets we indicate the original Anna Grigorievna…

Previously in the Dostoevsky for Parents and Children series:  Varenka’s Memoirs (from the novel Poor Folk, 1846 [1883, 1887, 1897, DPC I]) At The Select Boarding School (from the novel The Adolescent, 1875 [1883, 1897, DPC II]) {In square brackets we indicate the original Anna Dostoevskaya anthologies in which the story appeared, followed by its order of posting in…

„The matter [in the epistolary novel Poor Folk] is simple: it concerns some good-hearted simpletons who assume that to love the whole world is an extraordinary pleasure and duty for every one. They cannot comprehend a thing when the wheel of life with all its rules and regulations runs over them and fractures their limbs and bones without a word.…

Today’s posting opens a series intended to gather the complete English equivalents (or at least as many of them as are available in the public domain) of a wonderful collection of Dostoevsky short stories and excerpts. Best known as „Dostoevsky for Children”, the original Russian anthology was brought out posthumously by Anna Grigorievna Dostoevskaya, the…

Străin de toate ale lumii și de trup, s-a pogorât în Ajun dintru înălțimi făcându-și aripile nevăzute, asemenea oricărui înger dumnezeiesc. A adus daruri din împărățiile de sus, ca să-I cinstească pe locuitorii capitalei. Era îngerul orașului. Ținea în mână-i un astru și în pieptul său pulsau viață și putere, iar din gură îi ieșea…