# Short-story masterpieces, Vol. 4

Author: Esenwein, J. Berg (Joseph Berg), 1867-1946 [Editor]; Cournos, John, 1881-1966 [Translator]

Genre: Category: Short Stories

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68357

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Short-story+masterpieces%2C+Vol.+4+Esenwein&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

It is really a hopeless task to view within small compass so prolific and so intense a novelist as Féodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski. Indeed, I long questioned the fitness of including him in this series of brief studies, for his little fictions are few; but Russian literature knows no more vigorous novelist than this inartistic though colossal figure, and any compendious treatment of Russian writers would seem inadequate which did not include the author of “Crime and Punishment.” Apart from a few little stories, Dostoevski’s short fictional creations are chiefly episodes in his long and mostly rambling novels--powerful and compact little digressions often almost unrelated to the main thread...

## Chapters

- [VOLUME IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/short-story-masterpieces-vol-4-68357/chapters/2/index.md)
- [VOLUME IV--RUSSIAN](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/short-story-masterpieces-vol-4-68357/chapters/1/index.md)