The double
(2010)
Fiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States]: Neeland Media LLC, 2010
Made available through hoopla
Made available through hoopla
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781420903492 (electronic bk.) MWT11908734, 1420903497 (electronic bk.) 11908734
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Read by Nick Sullivan
First published in 1846, Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novella "The Double" is a classic doppelgñger and the second major work published by the author. It is the story of Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, a government clerk who believes that a fellow clerk has taken over his identity and is determined to bring about his ruin. Considered the most Gogolesque of Dostoyevsky's works, the novella brilliantly depicts Golyadkin's descent into madness in a way that is hauntingly poetic. The Double illustrates Dostoyevsky's uncanny ability at capturing the complexity of human emotion especially the darker side of the human psyche
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