Feodor Dostoyevsky

In "The Double," Feodor Dostoyevsky tells the story of a minor government clerk named Golyadkin who goes to work one day only to find another Golyadkin who looks exactly like him but is everything the original is not: impudent, sneaky and shameless, but ultimately successful in displacing the original.

Being Bret Stephens -- Or Not 2009

In 1849, Feodor Dostoyevsky wrote on the wall of his prison cell the following story of THE PRIEST AND THE DEVIL:

Anarchism and Other Essays Emma Goldman 1904

Feodor Dostoyevsky, the great 19th-century Russian novelist, was a gambler who squandered vast sums at the roulette tables of Paris and Baden-Baden.

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