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| This evening, however, on coming out into the street, he became acutely aware of his fears. |
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| Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky |
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| 1821–81, Russian novelist, one of the towering figures of world literature.… A profound psychologist and philosopher, Dostoyevsky depicted with remarkable insight the depth and complexity of the human soul. His powerful though generally humorless narrative style, his understanding of the intricacies of character, especially the pathological conscience, and his amplification of sin and redemption made him a giant among novelists and, in the realm of ideas, a precursor of Freudian psychological analysis.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Biographical Note from Harvard Classics.) |
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Pronunciation:  d s´´t -y f´sk , -toi-, d s- from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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- Crime and Punishment
From the Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction, Vol. XVIII.
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- Dostoyevsky, Feodor, 17591 to 17600
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