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Thirty to forty thousand people followed his coffin at the funeral procession held in st. Top 10 books by fyodor dostoevsky best book recommendations. The double is a surprisingly modern hallucinatory nightmareforeshadowing kafka and sartrein which a minor official named goliadkin becomes aware of a mysterious doppelganger, a man who has his name. It was subsequently revised and republished by dostoevsky in 1866. In the pantheon of great russian writers, two heads appear to tower above all othersat least for us englishlanguage readers. The double ebook 9781443436144 by fyodor dostoyevsky. Free download or read online the double pdf epub book. White nights is a short story by fyodor dostoevsky, originally published in 1848, early in the writers career.
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