Uncle’s Dream and The Permanent Husband

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Publisher:

Vizetelly & Co.

, 1888

Overview

One of Dostoevsky’s early novellas, Uncle’s Dream follows the account of an ambitious mother, Maria Alexandrovna Moskalyova, who attempts to marry off her 23-year-old daughter to an aging, frail, and forgetful old prince. The drama that unfolds follows the struggle between connivering and manipulative family members, the human obsession with vanity and pride, and the question of love in socially-arranged marriages.

Decades later, Dostoevsky wrote The Permanent Husband, a love-affair drama that is both tragedy and comedy, that follows complicated relationships, remarriages, and unrequited love.

Product Details

• Title: Uncle’s Dream; and The Permanent Husband
• Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Series: Vizetelly’s Russian Novels
• Publisher: Vizetelly & Co.
• Print Publication Date: 1888
• Logos Release Date: 2014
• Pages: 307
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881 › Translations into English
• Resource ID: LLS:NCLDRMPRMHSB
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T20:25:34Z

About Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky (November 11, 1821 – February 9, 1881) was a Russian writer of novels, short stories and essays. He is best known for his novels Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov. Dostoyevsky’s literary works explored human psychology in the troubled political, social and spiritual context of 19th-century Russian society.