Short Stories of Dostoyevsky
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Dostoevsky's stories show that he was as talented in the short story as he was in the novel. Exploring many of the same themes as in his longer works, these small masterpieces range from the delicate and romantic White Nights, an archetypal story of nineteenth-century patos and loss, to the famous "Notes from the Underground," a story of guilt, inefficiency and irreconcilable cynicism, and the first major work of existentialist literature. Among Dostoevsky's prototypical characters is Omelyan in The Honest Thief, whose tragedy turns into an inability to resist a crime.
