Book cover for A Bad Business: Essential Stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky

A Bad Business

Essential Stories

Fyodor Dostoevsky
2022 Released
288 Pages
4-5 Hours
Audiobook Unavailable
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Pushkin CollectionISBN 9781782276746
Translated by Nicolas Pasternak, Maya Slater

A stunning new edition featuring fresh translations of six of this classic Russian writer's most thrilling short stories in a beautiful Pushkin Collection edition.

This vivid collection of new translations by Nicolas Pasternak Slater and Maya Slater illuminates Dostoevsky's dazzling versatility as a writer.
 
His remarkable short fiction swings from wickedly sharp humour to gripping psychological intensity, from cynical social mockery to moments of unexpected tenderness.
 
The stories in this collection range from impossible fantasy to scorching satire.

  • A civil servant finds a new passion for his work when he's swallowed alive by a crocodile.
  • A struggling writer stumbles on a cemetery where the dead still talk to each other.
  • An arrogant but well-intentioned gentleman provokes an uproar at an aide's wedding, and in the marital bed.
  • A young boy finds unexpected salvation on a cold and desolate Christmas Eve.

    • Fyodor Dostoevsky

    Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and many other novels.

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    Notes from Underground
    The Idiot
    White Nights
    Notes from the Underground
    Notes from Underground and the Double
    Devils
    Demons
    White Nights/A Gentle Creature/The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
    The Double and the Gambler
    The House of the Dead
    Notes from a Dead House

    Nicolas Pasternak

    Translated by

    Maya Slater

    Translated by

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