Dostoevsky

or Do·sto·yev·sky, Do·sto·ev·ski, Do·sto·yev·ski, Do·stoi·ev·ski

[ dos-tuh-yef-skee, duhs-; Russian duh-stuh-yef-skyee ]

noun

1. Fyo·dor Mi·khai·lo·vich [fyoh, -der mi-, kahy, -l, uh, -vich, fyaw, -d, uh, r, myi-, khahy, -l, uh, -vyich], 1821–81, Russian novelist.

Dostoevsky

/ ˌdɒstɔɪˈɛfskɪ; dəstaˈjɛfskij /

noun

1. DostoevskyFyodor Mikhailovich18211881MRussianWRITING: novelist Fyodor Mikhailovich (ˈfjɔdər miˈxajləvitʃ). 1821–81, Russian novelist, the psychological perception of whose works has greatly influenced the subsequent development of the novel. His best-known works are Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1868), The Possessed (1871), and The Brothers Karamazov (1879–80)

Example Sentences

It turns out, though, that Friedmann was an avid reader, and among his favorite authors were Dostoevsky and Poe.

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I had found God reading The Catcher in the Rye and Dostoevsky.

From The Daily Beast

An ex-convict looks back on the books he read, from Dostoevsky to Malcolm X, during the decade he spent behind bars.

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Dostoevsky spends a lot of description on the little hustles his ‘peers’ worked at for money and services.

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Some were as old as Dostoevsky, who wrote his House of the Dead in 1861 after four years in a Siberian prison camp.

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If Dostoevsky unintentionally laid the philosophical groundwork upon which Putin now stands, then Tolstoy offers the solution.

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If Putin preferred Tolstoy over Dostoevsky, what a happier, more peaceful place Ukraine would be right now.

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Dostoevsky used to groan that his poverty left him no time or chance to write his best as Tolstoy and Turgenev could write theirs.

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It seems impossible with many people to praise Dostoevsky without saying that he is greater than Tolstoy or Turgenev.

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He was not Swedish with the passionate, reverential love with which Dostoevsky was Russian.

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This is the eleventh volume in the first collected English edition of Dostoevsky's works.

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No one, with the exception of Dostoevsky and Hauptmann, approaches him in unfolding the artless secrets of the childish heart.

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