The Insulted and Injured Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky A great classic by a master story teller, The Insulted and Injured is a compassionate novel of deep and all-destroying love, of self-denial and licentious sinfulness. The wracking visions of pity for his fellow man, the author's tortured and prophetic genius, the incomparable portraits of flesh-and-blood people... they are all there in the story... more » of Vanya's willing acceptance of the destruction of his love for Natasha by his irresolute friend Alyosha. Into this novel, published after Dostoevsky's shattering moment in front of the firing squad and his Siberian exile, the great Russian master poured his harrowing insights into the recesses of the human soul.« less