The Eternal Husband and Other Stories [Paperback]

From Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators ofWar and Peace, Doctor Zhivago,andAnna Karenina,which was an Oprah Book Club pick and million-copy bestseller,The Eternal Husband and Other Storiesbrings 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 novelThe 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 Storiesis sterling Dostoevsky—a collection of emotional power and uncompromising insight into the human condition.

“One finally gets the musical whole of Dostoevsky’s original.”—The New York Times Book Review,on Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s translation ofThe Brothers Karamazov

Richard PevearandLarissa Volokhonskyhave twice been awarded the PEN Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize (for their version of Dostoevsky’sThe Brothers Karamazovand for Tolstoy’sAnna Karenina), and their translation of Dostoevsky’sDemonswas one of three nominees for the same prize. They are married and live in France.A Nasty Anecdote

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This nasty anecdote occurred precisely at the time when, with such irrepressible force and such touchingly naive enthusiasm, the regeneration of our dear fatherland began, and its valiant sons were all striving toward new destinies and hopes. Then, one winter, on a clear and frosty evening, though it was already past eleven, three extremely re-spectable gentlemen were sitting in a comfortably and even luxuriously furnished room,lsL