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Prince Classics Uncle by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Uncles Dream by Fyodor Dostoyevsky was written following his five year exile to Siberia where he was sent to serve in a hard labor camp. Following what could only have been a harrowing and harsh existence in Russias infamous prison for political and social prisoners one would expect Dostoyevskys work to have been dark and bitter. Rather Uncles Dream is a humorous and yet scathing commentary on Russian provincial high-society.Fyodor Mikhaylovich sometimes transliterated Dostoevsky was a Russian novelist journalist and short-story writer whose psychological penetration into the human soul had a profound influence on the 20th century novel.Dostoevsky was the second son of a former army doctor. He was educated at home and at a private school. Shortly after the death of his mother in 1837 he was sent to St. Petersburg where he entered the Army Engineering College. Dostoevskys father died in 1839 most likely of apoplexy but it was rumored that he was murdered by his own serfs. Dostoevsky graduated as a military engineer but resigned in 1844 to devote himself to writing. His first novel Poor Folk appeared in 1846.That year he joined a group of utopian socialists. He was arrested in 1849 and sentenced to death commuted to imprisonment in Siberia. Dostoevsky spent four years in hard labor and four years as a soldier in Semipalatinsk a city in what it is today Kazakhstan.Dostoevsky returned to St. Petersburg in 1854 as a writer with a religious mission and published three works that derive in different ways from his Siberia experiences: The House of the Dead 1860 a fictional account of prison life The Insulted and Injured which reflects the authors refutation of naive Utopianism in the face of evil and Winter Notes on Summer Impressions his account of a trip to Western Europe.The Eternal Husband is a novella by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky that was first published in 1870 in Zarya magazine The novellas plot revolves around the complicated relationship between Velchaninov and Trusotsky the husband of his deceased former lover.show more