Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Works

Works

Dostoyevsky's works of fiction include 15 novels and novellas, 17 short stories, and 5 translations. Many of his longer novels were first published in serialised form in literary magazines and journals (see the individual articles). The years given below indicate the year in which the novel's final part or first complete book edition was published. In English many of his novels and stories are known by different titles.

Plays

  • (~1844) The Jew Yankel (unknown whether finished or not; title based on Gogol's character from Taras Bulba)

Novels and novellas

  • (1846) Poor Folk
  • (1846) The Double: A Petersburg Poem
  • (1849) Netochka Nezvanova (unfinished)
  • (1859) Uncle's Dream
  • (1859) The Village of Stepanchikovo
  • (1861) Humiliated and Insulted
  • (1862) The House of the Dead
  • (1864) Notes from Underground
  • (1866) Crime and Punishment
  • (1867) The Gambler
  • (1869) The Idiot
  • (1870) The Eternal Husband
  • (1872) Demons
  • (1875) The Adolescent
  • (1880) The Brothers Karamazov

Short stories

  • (1846) "Mr. Prokharchin"
  • (1847) "Novel in Nine Letters"
  • (1847) "The Landlady"
  • (1848) "The Jealous Husband"
  • (1848) "A Weak Heart"
  • (1848) "Polzunkov"
  • (1848) "The Honest Thief"
  • (1848) "The Christmas Tree and a Wedding"
  • (1848) "White Nights"
  • (1849) "A Little Hero"
  • (1862) "A Nasty Anecdote"
  • (1865) "The Crocodile"
  • (1873) "Bobok"
  • (1876) "The Heavenly Christmas Tree"
  • (1876) "The Meek One"
  • (1876) "The Peasant Marey"
  • (1877) "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man"

Essays

  • Winter Notes on Summer Impressions (1863)
  • A Writer's Diary (Дневник писателя, 1873–1881)
  • Letters (collected in English translations in five volumes of Complete Letters)

Translations

  • (1843) Eugénie Grandet, (Honore de Balzac)
  • (1843) La dernière Aldini (George Sand)
  • (1843) Mary Stuart (Friedrich Schiller)
  • (1843) Boris Godunov (Alexander Pushkin)

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