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The Eternal Husband and Other Stories (Modern Library Classics)
The Eternal Husband and Other Stories - Modern Library Classics Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky From Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Doctor Zhivago, and Anna Karenina, which was an Oprah Book Club pick and million-copy bestseller, The Eternal Husband and Other Stories brings together five of Dostoevsky?s short masterpieces. — — Filled with many of the themes and concerns central to... more » his great novels, these short works display the full range of Dostoevsky?s genius. The centerpiece of this collection, the short novel The Eternal Husband, describes the almost surreal meeting of a cuckolded widower and his dead wife?s lover. Dostoevsky?s dark brilliance and satiric vision infuse the other four tales with all-too-human characters. The Eternal Husband and Other Stories is sterling Dostoevsky?a collection of emotional power and uncompromising insight into the human condition.« less