The Gentle Spirit: A Fantastic Story (Penguin Classics 60s S.) - Softcover

McDuff, David; Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0146001680 ISBN 13: 9780146001680

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1995

Synopsis

A man lays bare his tortured soul

About this title

About the Author:

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was born in Moscow in 1821. His debut, the epistolary novella Poor Folk(1846), made his name. In 1849 he was arrested for involvement with the politically subversive 'Petrashevsky circle' and until 1854 he lived in a convict prison in Omsk, Siberia. From this experience came The House of the Dead (1860-2). In 1860 he began the journal Vremya (Time). Already married, he fell in love with one of his contributors, Appollinaria Suslova, eighteen years his junior, and developed a ruinous passion for roulette. After the death of his first wife, Maria, in 1864, Dostoyevsky completed Notes from Underground and began work towards Crime and Punishment (1866). The major novels of his late period are The Idiot (1868), Demons(1871-2) and The Brothers Karamazov (1879-80). He died in 1881.

Synopsis:

One of 60 low-priced classic texts published to celebrate Penguin's 60th anniversary. All the titles are extracts from "Penguin Classics" titles.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0146001680
• ISBN 13: 9780146001680
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96