The Insulted and Humiliated
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Author | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
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Original title (if not in English) | Униженные и оскорбленные |
Translator | ? unknown |
Country | Russia |
Language | Russian |
Genre(s) | Novel |
Publisher | |
Released | 1861 |
Media Type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
Pages | 460 pp (paperback edition) |
ISBN | ISBN 0-89875-104-7 (paperback edition) |
The Insulted and Humiliated (also known as The Insulted and the Injured) by Fyodor Dostoevsky, first published in 1861, is a book about the huge contradictions present in life.
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Full of a harsh realism, the book is a strong portrait of human misery. The book has the protagonist Ivan Petrovich fall from fame into poverty and based on the author's own life experiences. It was very poorly received by literature critics of the time [1].
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[edit] Characters in "The Insulted and Humiliated"
- Ivan Petrovich – main protagonist
- Prince Valkovsky –
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The Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky |
Major Works: Poor Folk | The Double: A Petersburg Poem | The Village of Stepanchikovo | The Insulted and Humiliated | The House of the Dead | A Nasty Story | Notes from Underground | Crime and Punishment | The Gambler | The Idiot | The Possessed | The Raw Youth | The Brothers Karamazov |
Short Stories: "White Nights" | "A Christmas Tree and a Wedding" | "An Honest Thief" | "The Peasant Marey" | "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" | "A Gentle Creature" | "A Weak Heart" |
Other: "The Grand Inquisitor" | Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov |