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 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.
is sterling Dostoevsky—a collection of emotional power and uncompromising insight into the human condition.