Publisher's Synopsis
Fyodor Dostoyevsky was a great Russian writer in the nineteenth century. Dostoyevsky's works are noted for their exploration of human psychology in the difficult society that he lived in. With classics such as Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot, and others, Dostoyevsky remains one of the most translated authors in history. The Double is a novel that centers around a government clerk who has gone mad. The book examines the internal struggle of Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, who encounters someone who looks exactly like him but has all the character traits he dreams he could have.
