The Eternal Husband and Other Stories (Paperback)

Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Preface by Richard Pevear
"The Eternal Husband and Other Stories" brings together five of Dostoevsky's short masterpieces rendered into English by two of the most celebrated Dostoevsky translators of our time. Filled with many of the themes and concerns central to his great novels, these short works display the full range of Dostoevsky's genius. The centerpiece of this collection, the short novel "The Eternal Husband, " describes the almost surreal meeting of a cuckolded widower and his dead wife's lover. Dostoevsky's dark brilliance and satiric vision infuse the other four tales with all-too-human characters. "The Eternal Husband and Other Stories" is sterling Dostoevsky--a collection of emotional power and uncompromising insight into the human condition.