A Gentle Creature: A Collection of Stories

A collection of “fantastic” stories by a great classic!

In absolutely all his works, even in small form, Dostoevsky searches for an answer to the question he had been asking throughout his entire life: where is the line between good and evil— in the heart of an individual person and in all of society?

Although the stories “The Crocodile,” “A Nasty Story,” and “Marey the Man” seem to stand in the shadow of the “great five-book” work, it is precisely in them that this most important creative problem of Dostoevsky has developed. A special place is taken by one of his last works—an amazingly touching novella “The Gentle One,” where the writer examines the relationship between a tyrant and a victim through the example of an ordinary family.

Contents:

The Little Hero

The Crocodile. An Unusual Event or a Passage in a Passage

Marey the Man

The Gentle One

A Boy at Christ’s Christmas Tree

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man