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While contemplating his life and deeming himself ridiculous, a man on the verge of suicide is interrupted by a young girl begging for his help. In his dark mood, he brushes her away, but when he returns home to commit the act he cannot move past his feelings of guilt over his treatment of the girl. "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" was adapted into a 1990 BBC production entitled The Dream starring Jeremy Irons.

After attending a wedding, a man is reminded of a Christmas party that he had been invited to years before. At the party, the man found himself isolated from most of the conversation, so began watching the other guests and the children as he idled. Soon, he witnessed an event that will eventually result in the wedding at which he is to be a guest years later. "A Christmas Tree and a Wedding" was adapted into a film of the same name in 2000, and was...

Extrait : "C'était à la fin de novembre ; par un temps de dégel, humide et brumeux, le train de Varsovie arrivait à toute vapeur à Pétersbourg. Le brouillard était tel qu'à neuf heures du matin on voyait à peine clair ; à droite et à gauche de la voie ferrée il était difficile d'apercevoir quelque chose par les fenêtres du wagon."

Dostoevsky was 27 years old when he wrote this story. It revolves around two young men, true soul mates, who live in each other's pockets, sharing a flat, social and emotional joys and setbacks. They are young professionals of the time contemplating life, happiness, unexplored joys. One of the two friends develops a vision of universal happiness conflicting with his individual pleasures, and preventing him from marrying a beautiful young girl.

The Grand Inquisitor is a poem (a story within a story) inside Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov (1879-1880). It is recited by Ivan Karamazov, who questions the possibility of a personal and benevolent God, to his brother Alexei (Alyosha), a novice monk. "The Grand Inquisitor" is an important part of the novel and one of the best-known passages in modern literature because of its ideas about human nature and freedom, and its fundamental...

Los dos relatos que conforman esta obra no escapan a la aguda visión de Dostoievski sobre la condición humana, los sentimientos y las emociones. Sumergirnos en lo profundo del alma de los protagonistas será, sin duda, algo inevitable. Un corazón débil es la historia de una amistad fuerte y compleja, pero también es la tragedia de Vasia Shumkov, un joven con temperamento débil a quien la felicidad parece perturbar. Querido y respetado por todos...

Extrait: "La nuit était merveilleuse, — une de ces nuits comme notre jeunesse seule en connut, cher lecteur. Un firmament si étoilé, si calme, qu'en le regardant on se demandait involontairement: Peut-il vraiment exister des méchants sous un si beau ciel? — Et cette pensée est encore une pensée de jeunesse, cher lecteur, de la plus naïve jeunesse. Mais puissiez-vous avoir le cœur bien longtemps jeune." À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS LIGARAN Les...

Dostoyevsky's works are marked by his penetrating exploration of psychology and morality, which are today cited as highly 'existentialist.' An Honest Thief illustrates some of the author's most common themes: compassion, integrity and the power of the human spirit. This volume also includes: "Uncle's Dream," "A Novel in Nine Letters," "An Unpleasant Predicament," "Another Man's Wife," "The Heavenly Christmas Tree," "The Peasant Marey," "The Crocodile,"...

Fiodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky nació en Moscú en 1821 y murió en San Petersburgo en 1881. Es reconocido como uno de los más grandes escritores de la literatura soviética e internacional y autor de las obras maestras Crimen y castigo y Los hermanos Karamazov. La obra de Dostoievski, poco comprendida por sus contemporáneos, marcó profundamente el pensamiento moderno y la literatura occidental. La obra Memorias del Subsuelo ofrece una poderosa...

This volume offers a contrasting selection of stories and tales from the master of psychology Fyodor Dostoyevsky and heartwarming story teller Beatrix Potter. The collection includes: An Honest Thief, The Peasant Marey by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies by Beatrix Potter.