This collection, unique to the Modern Library, gathers seven of Dostoevsky's key works and shows him to be equally adept at the short story as with the novel. Exploring many of the same themes as in his longer works, these small masterpieces move from the tender and romantic "White Nights," an archetypal nineteenth-century morality tale of pathos and loss, to the famous "Notes from the Underground," a story of guilt, ineffectiveness, and uncompromising cynicism, and the first major work of existential literature.
Presented in chronological order, in David Magarshack's celebrated translation, this volume includes "White Nights," "The Honest Thief," "The Christmas Tree and a Wedding," "The Peasant Marey," "Notes from the Underground," "A Gentle Creature," and
"The Dream of a Ridiculous Man."