Humillados y ofendidos

Written shortly after the pivotal period of his life marked by his four-year imprisonment in the Siberian penal colony of Omsk and his subsequent five-year service as a soldier, The Insulted and Humiliated is a key novel in the career of Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881), as it affirmed the course his extraordinary literary career would take from then on. Still influenced by the serialized nature of its original publication in 1861, it is at once a chronicle of impossible loves and a social drama, a great work of entertainment and a remarkable gallery of characters that earned the praise of the great Tolstoy.