A desperate man wanders around the streets of St. Petersburg. His life having lost its meaning, he is determined to kill himself. Nothing matters anymore and there is no point in...
White Nights
White Nights is a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, published in 1848, early in the writer’s career. The story tells about unfortunate young man who is lonely and shy. He...
The Gambler
One of Dostoevsky’s shorter novels, "The Gambler" reflects the author’s own difficult and prolonged battles with gambling as one of his major addictions. It is the story of a...
The Eternal Husband
‘The Eternal Husband’ is a tragicomic novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky about Trusotsky, a widower who discovers that his wife had an affair with an old friend, Velchaninov. The...
B. J. Harrison Reads A Christmas Tree And A Wedding
The narrator in the story has just came back from a wedding, but he wants to take us to a Christmas party that he was at several years ago and where he witnessed how big of a...
The Gambler
The Gambler is the short novel by Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky. Dostoevsky tells the story of a young tutor named Alexey Ivanovitch, who works in the household of an imperious...
