Uncle’s Dream (1859) is a satirical comedy set in a provincial Russian town, where a scheming widow attempts to marry her daughter to an elderly, doddering prince — with farcical results. The Permanent Husband (1870) is a darker, stranger work in which a cuckolded husband tracks down his late wife’s lover years later, and their relationship takes on a disturbingly ambiguous quality that is quintessentially Dostoyevskian.
Together these novellas show a lighter, more playful side of Dostoyevsky. Download the free EPUB to sample the range of his shorter fiction.