Cuentos

In Dostoevsky's short stories, no less brilliant than his novels for being brief, some of the recurring themes throughout his work appear: swindlers swindled, delusional misers, and rarely honest thieves, all treated with the satirical and humorous touch that has made him a classic. The stories included in this volume offer the reader a broad view of the complex artistic personality of the Russian writer, who always considered it his duty "to rehabilitate the individual destroyed, crushed by the unjust yoke of circumstances, age-old stagnation, and social prejudices."