Publisher's Synopsis
This is a collection of five best books by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment Crime and Punishment is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments during 1866. Later, it was published in a single volume The Dream of a Ridiculous Man The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" is a short story by Fyodor" Dostoyevsky written in 1877. It chronicles the experiences of a man who decides that there is nothing of any value in the world The Gambler The Gambler was written under the pressure of crushing debt. It is a stunning psychological portrait of a young man's exhilarating and destructive addiction, a compulsion that Dostoevsky-who once gambled away his young wife's wedding ring-knew intimately from his own experience. In the disastrous love affairs and gambling adventures of his character, Alexei Ivanovich, Dostoevsky explores the irresistible temptation to look into the ...abyss of ultimate risk that
