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'I could see that she was still terribly afraid, but I didn't soften anything; instead, seeing that she was afraid I deliberately intensified it.'

In this short story, Dostoyevsky masterfully depicts desperation, greed, manipulation and suicide.

Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881). Dostoyevsky's works available in Penguin Classics are Crime and Punishment, Anna Karenina, The Idiot, The Double, The Gambler and Other Stories, The Grand Inquisitor, Notes From The Underground, Netochka Nezvanova, The House of The Dead, The Brothers Karamazov and The Village of Stepanchikovo.

Book details

Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

• Full title: The Meek One
• Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64
• EAN: 9780141397481
• ISBN: 0141397489
• ID: 05339549
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Weight: 54 g
• Dimensions: 183 × 115 × 5 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. February 2015

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