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Great Short Works Study Guide

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by Fyodor Dostoevsky
About 65 pages (19,401 words)

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Great Short Works Study Guide consists of approx. 65 pages of summaries and analysis on Great Short Works by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Browse the literature study guide below:

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There are 18 short stories in this collection of fiction works. The first of these is dated as having come from 1846 whereas the last in the group came out in 1877. The series of stories is preambled by a useful introduction. Dostoevsky is admittedly one of the greatest fiction writers the modern world has ever known, and a Russian. This set of stories has been translated into the English for us by Constance Garnett with full permission by the Macmillan Company, Publishers. The edition used for this summary came out in 1961 and is listed as the 6th printing of the book. (read more)
      Book 1, The Short Stories : Chapter 1, Mr. Prohartchin & A Novel in Nine Letters
      Book 1, The Short Stories : Chapter 2, The Landlady
      Book 1, The Short Stories : Chapter 3, The Land Lady Cont.
      Book 1, The Short Stories : Chapter 3, Polzunkov
      Book 1, The Short Works : Chapter 4, A Faint Heart Another Man's Wife or the Husband Under the Bed
      Book 1, The Short Stories : Chapter 5, An Honest Thief & A Christmas Tree & A Wedding, White Nights
      Book 1, The Short Stories : Chapter 6, A Little Hero
      Book 1, The Short Stories : Chapter 8, An Unpleasant Predicament
      Book 1, The Short Stories : Chapter 7, The Crocodile & Bobok
      Book 1, The Short Stories : Chapter 8, The Peasant Marey & The Heavenly Christmas Tree
      Book 1, The Short Stories : Chapter 9, A Gentle Spirit
      Book 1, The Short Stories : Chapter 12, Gentle Spirit Cont.
      Book 1, The Short Stories : Chapter 13, A Gentle Spirit Cont.
      Book 1, The Short Stories : Chapter 10, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

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