Author: | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
Novellink: | Novels and novellas |
Article: | + |
Articlelink: | Articles and essays |
Story: | 18 |
Storylink: | Short stories |
Playlink: | Other |
Letterlink: | Letters |
Journal: | 2 |
Editorbook: | 1 |
Option: | 10 |
Optionname: | Poems and epigrams |
Optionlink: | Poems, epigrams and limericks |
1Option: | 3 |
1Optionname: | Almanacs |
1Optionlink: | Almanacs |
2Option: | 3 |
2Optionname: | Novellas |
2Optionlink: | Novels and novellas |
Translation: | 1 |
Pamphlet: | 1 |
Pamphletlink: | Pamphlets |
The bibliography of Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) comprises novels, novellas, short stories, essays and other literary works. Raised by a literate family, Dostoyevsky discovered literature at an early age, beginning when his mother introduced the Bible to him. Nannies near the hospitalsin the grounds of which he was raisedintroduced Dostoyevsky to fairy tales, legends and sagas. His mother's subscription to the Library of Reading gave him access to the leading contemporary Russian and non-Russian literature. After his mother's death, Dostoyevsky moved from a boarding school to a military academy and despite the resulting lack of money, he was captivated by literature until his death.
Dostoyevsky started his writing career after finishing university. He started translating literature from Frenchwhich he learnt at the boarding schoolinto Russian, and then wrote short stories. With the success of his first novel, Poor Folk, he became known throughout Saint Petersburg and Russia. Vissarion Belinsky, Alexander Herzen and others praised Poor Folks depiction of poverty, and Belinsky called it Russia's "first social novel". This success did not continue with his second novel, The Double, and other short stories published mainly in left-wing magazines. These magazines included Notes of the Fatherland and The Contemporary.
Dostoyevsky's renewed financial troubles led him to join several political circles. Because of his participation in the Petrashevsky Circle, in which he distributed and read several Belinsky articles deemed as anti-religious and anti-government, he and other members were sentenced to capital punishment. He was pardoned at the last minute, but they were imprisoned in SiberiaDostoyevsky for four years. During his detention he wrote several works, including the autobiographical The House of the Dead. A New Testament booklet, which had been given shortly before his imprisonment, and other literature obtained outside of the barracks, were the only books he read at that time.
Following his release, Dostoyevsky read a myriad of literature and gradually became interested in nationalistic and conservative philosophies and increasingly sceptical towards contemporary movementsespecially the Nihilists. Dostoyevsky wrote his most important works after his time in Siberia, including Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Gambler and The Brothers Karamazov. With the help of his brother Mikhail, Dostoyevsky opened two magazinesVremya and Epochin which some of his stories appeared. Following their closures, most of his works were issued in the conservative The Russian Messenger until the introduction of A Writer's Diary, which comprised most of his worksincluding essays and articles. Several drafts and plans, especially those begun during his honeymoon, were unfinished at his death.
Title | 1st publisher | 1st English translator | Notes | |||
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Бедные люди, Bednye Lyudi | (1894) | Novel | ||||
Двойник, Dvoynik | (1917) | Novel | ||||
Хозяйка, Khozayka | (1913)[1] | Novella | [2] | |||
Неточка Незванова | (1920)[3] | (Unfinished) Abandoned novel | ||||
Дядюшкин сон, Dyadushkin son | (1888)[4] | Novella | ||||
Село Степанчиково и его обитатели, Selo Stepanchikovo i evo obitateli | (1887)[5] | Novel; also known as The Friend of the Family | ||||
Униженные и оскорблённые, Unizhyonnye i oskorblyonye | (1887)[6] | Novel; also known as Insulted and Injured and Injury and Insult | ||||
Записки из Мёртвого дома, Zapiski iz Myortvovo doma | (1881)[7] | Novel; also known as House of the Dead, or Prison Life in Siberia and Buried Alive: Or, Ten Years of Penal Servitude in Siberia | ||||
Записки из подполья, Zapiski iz podpol'ya | (1913) | Novella in two parts; also known as Notes from the Underground and Letters from the Underworld | ||||
Преступление и наказание, Prestupleniye i nakazaniye | (1885)[8] | Novel | ||||
Игрок, Igrok | (1887) | Novel | ||||
Идиот, Idiot | (1887)[9] | Novel | ||||
Вечный муж, Vechny muzh | (1888) | Novel; also known as The Permanent Husband | ||||
Бесы, Besy | (1916)[10] | Novel; also known as The Possessed and The Devils | ||||
Подросток, Podrostok | (1916)[11] | Novel; also known as The Raw Youth and An Accidental Family | ||||
Братья Карамазовы, Brat'ya Karamazovy | (1900)[12] | Novel in twelve "books" and an epilogue; originally intended as first part of the epic The Life of a Great Sinner |
Title | 1st publisher | 1st English translator | Notes | |||
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Господин Прохарчин, Gospodin Prokharchin | (1918)[13] | |||||
Роман в девяти письмах, Roman v devyati pis'makh | Unknown (1900) | |||||
Ревнивый муж, Revnyvy muzh | – | [14] | ||||
Чужая жена, Chuzhaya zhena | – | |||||
Чужая жена и муж под кроватью, Chuzhaya zhena i muzh pod krovat'yu | Unknown (1900) | Merger between "A Jealous Husband" and "Another Man's Wife" | ||||
Слабое сердце, Slaboe serdtse | (1918) | Also known as "A Faint Heart" | ||||
Ползунков, Polzunkov | (1918) | [15] | ||||
Честный вор, Chestny vor | Unknown (1900) | |||||
Ёлка и свадьба, Yolka i svad'ba | (1918) | |||||
Белые ночи, Belye nochi | (1918) | [16] | ||||
Маленький герой, Malenkiy geroy | (1918) | |||||
Скверный анекдот, Skverny anekdot | Unknown (1900) | Also known as "A Disgraceful Affair", "A Nasty Anecdote", "A Most Unfortunate Incident", "An Unpleasant Predicament" | ||||
Крокодил, Krokodil | Unknown (1900) | |||||
Бобок, Bobok | Unknown (1900) | |||||
Мужик Марей, Muzhik Marey | Unknown (1900) | |||||
Мальчик у Христа на ёлке, Mal'chik u Khrista na yolke | Unknown (1900) | |||||
Кроткая, Krotkaya | (1917) | Also known as "The Meek One", "A Gentle Maiden", "The Gentle Maiden", "A Gentle Spirit" | [17] | |||
Сон смешного человека, Son smeshnovo cheloveka | Unknown (1900) |
See main article: article and A Writer's Diary. Diary articles
Dostoyevsky wrote 221 Diary articles (excluding short stories listed in the respective section above) within two periods. The initial 1873 works were published in The Citizen, the editor of which was Dostoyevsky, and from 1876 – 1877 the Diary was self-published. The English titles of the following list of works are extracted from Kenneth Lantz's two-volume translations.
A Writer's Diary is a collection mainly of essays and articles, which also include, for example, answers to readers, introductions, etc., making the Diaries a journal-like book written and mostly edited by Dostoyevsky.
List of initial Diary articles, issued in 1873:
Other articles and essays
Dostoyevsky wrote articles and essays outside the Diaries collection. These include the 1863 travelogue Winter Notes on Summer Impressions, in which he satirised and criticised European life.[18] Other articles were written in response or as a criticism to a literary work, a person's view, requests to the military during the imprisonment period, announcements, notes and explanations. Some of them were written for different journals or almanacs.
See main article: article and List of letters from Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
List of letters by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (all dates follow the Julian calendar). | ||||
Addressee | Location | Date | ||
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Father | Darovoye | |||
Mother | Moscow | |||
Mother | Moscow | (after 20) April – early May 1834 | ||
Mother | Moscow | |||
Mother | Moscow | |||
Father | Saint Petersburg | |||
Father | Saint Petersburg | |||
Father | Saint Petersburg | |||
Father | Saint Petersburg | 5 – 10 May 1839 | ||
Brother | Saint Petersburg | |||
Brother | Saint Petersburg | |||
Brother | Saint Petersburg | |||
/ Uncle / aunt | Saint Petersburg | |||
Brother | Saint Petersburg | |||
Brother | Petergof | |||
Brother | Saint Petersburg | |||
Chief of the Officers' Departments of the Main Academy of Engineering | Saint Petersburg | |||
Chief of the Officers' Departments of the Main Academy of Engineering | Saint Petersburg | |||
Widower | Saint Petersburg | November – December 1843 | ||
Brother | Saint Petersburg | |||
Brother | Saint Petersburg | 2nd half of January 1844 | ||
Brother | Saint Petersburg | July – August 1844 | ||
Brother | Saint Petersburg | 2nd half of August / early September 1844 | ||
Widower | Saint Petersburg | |||
Brother | Saint Petersburg | |||
Brother | Saint Petersburg | |||
Brother | Saint Petersburg | |||
Brother | Saint Petersburg | |||
Brother | Saint Petersburg | |||
Brother | Saint Petersburg | |||
Brother | Saint Petersburg | |||
Brother | Saint Petersburg | |||
Brother | Saint Petersburg | |||
Brother | Saint Petersburg | |||
Brother | Saint Petersburg | |||
Brother | Saint Petersburg | |||
Brother | Saint Petersburg | January – February 1847 | ||
Apollon Maykov's mother | Saint Petersburg | |||
Journalist, founder of Notes of the Fatherland | Saint Petersburg | |||
Brother | Saint Petersburg (Peter and Paul Fortress) | |||
Brother | Saint Petersburg (Peter and Paul Fortress) | |||
Brother | Saint Petersburg (Peter and Paul Fortress) | |||
Brother | Saint Petersburg (Peter and Paul Fortress) | |||
Brother | Omsk | 30 January – 22 February 1854 | ||
Decembrist | Omsk | Late January – (20–29) February 1854 | ||
Brother | Semipalatinsk | |||
Lawyer, ethnographer, bibliographer | Semipalatinsk | |||
First wife | Semipalatinsk | |||
Baron | Semipalatinsk | |||
Decembrist | Semipalatinsk | |||
Brother | Semipalatinsk | 13 – 18 Januaryr 1856 | ||
Poet | Semipalatinsk | |||
Baron | Semipalatinsk | |||
Brother | Semipalatinsk | |||
General | Semipalatinsk | |||
Baron | Semipalatinsk | |||
Baron | Semipalatinsk | |||
Baron | Semipalatinsk | |||
Brother | Semipalatinsk | |||
Scholar, ethnographer, historian | Semipalatinsk | |||
Baron | Semipalatinsk | |||
Brother | Semipalatinsk | |||
Brother | Semipalatinsk | |||
Jurist, ethnographer, bibliographer | Semipalatinsk | |||
Commander of the 7th Siberian Line Battalion Lieutenant-Colonel | Semipalatinsk | |||
Brother | Semipalatinsk | |||
Journalist | Semipalatinsk | |||
Reverse | Semipalatinsk | |||
Brother | Semipalatinsk | |||
Emperor | Semipalatinsk | Early March 1858 | ||
Director of the Siberian Cadet Corps | Semipalatinsk | 2nd half of May 1858 | ||
Brother | Semipalatinsk | |||
Brother | Semipalatinsk | |||
Brother | Semipalatinsk | |||
Brother | Tver | |||
Brother | Tver | |||
Emperor | Tver | 10 – 18 October 1859 | ||
Head of the Third Section of His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancellery | Tver | |||
Superintendent of the Third Section of His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancellery | Tver | |||
Brother | Tver | |||
Brother | Tver | |||
Head of the Third Section of His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancellery | Tver | |||
Actress | Saint Petersburg | |||
Poet | Saint Petersburg | |||
Poet | Saint Petersburg | |||
Philosopher, publicist, literary critic | Paris | |||
Poet | Saint Petersburg | |||
Writer | Saint Petersburg | 17 – 19 June 1863 | ||
Brother | Turin | |||
Philosopher, publicist, literary critic | Rome | |||
Writer | Rome | |||
Brother | Moscow | |||
Writer | Saint Petersburg | |||
Brother | Moscow | |||
Brother | Moscow | |||
Brother | Moscow | |||
Brother | Moscow | |||
Brother | Moscow | 13 – 14 April 1864 | ||
Brother | Saint Petersburg | |||
Writer | Saint Petersburg | |||
Socialist, feminist | Saint Petersburg | |||
Writer | Saint Petersburg | |||
Baron | Saint Petersburg | 31 March – 14 April 1865 | ||
Physician | Saint Petersburg | |||
Journalist, founder of Notes of the Fatherland | Saint Petersburg | < | ||
Writer | Wiesbaden | |||
Writer | Wiesbaden | |||
Writer | Wiesbaden | |||
Baron | Wiesbaden | |||
Journalist | Wiesbaden | 10 – 15 September 1865 | ||
Baron | Saint Petersburg | |||
Baron | Saint Petersburg | |||
Journalist | Saint Petersburg | |||
Socialist, feminist | Moscow | |||
Artist | Lyublino | |||
Critic, publisher | Lyublino | 10 – 15 July 1866 | ||
Journalist | Lyublino | |||
Physicist | Saint Petersburg | |||
Physicist | Saint Petersburg | |||
Physicist | Saint Petersburg | |||
Physicist | Saint Petersburg | |||
Stenographer | Moscow | |||
Critic, publisher | Saint Petersburg | |||
Writer | Dresden | < | ||
Stenographer, second wife | Dresden | |||
Stenographer, second wife | Bad Homburg | |||
Stenographer, second wife | Bad Homburg | |||
Stenographer, second wife | Bad Homburg | |||
Stenographer, second wife | Bad Homburg | |||
Poet | Geneva | |||
Poet | Geneva | |||
Physician | Geneva | |||
Niece | Geneva | |||
Physician | Geneva | 1 – 2 November 1867 | ||
Poet | Geneva | |||
Niece | Geneva | |||
Poet | Geneva | |||
Poet | Geneva | 21 – 22 March 1868 | ||
Stenographer, second wife | Saxon les Bains | |||
Niece | Geneva | |||
Poet | Geneva | |||
Poet | Vevey | |||
Poet | Vevey | |||
Vevey | Late August – early September 1868 | |||
Poet | Milan | |||
Poet | Florence | |||
Philosopher, publicist, literary critic | Florence | |||
Niece | Florence | |||
Philosopher, publicist, literary critic | Florence | |||
Niece | Florence | |||
Philosopher, publicist, literary critic | Florence | |||
Philosopher, publicist, literary critic | Florence | |||
Poet | Florence | |||
Poet | Dresden | |||
Poet | Dresden | |||
Philosopher, publicist, literary critic | Dresden | |||
Philosopher, publicist, literary critic | Dresden | |||
Poet | Dresden | |||
Philosopher, publicist, literary critic | Dresden | |||
Philosopher, publicist, literary critic | Dresden | |||
Journalist | Dresden | |||
Poet | Dresden | |||
Philosopher, publicist, literary critic | Dresden | |||
Philosopher, publicist, literary critic | Dresden | |||
Philosopher, publicist, literary critic | Dresden | |||
Poet | Dresden | |||
Philosopher, publicist, literary critic | Dresden | |||
Philosopher, publicist, literary critic | Dresden | |||
Philosopher, publicist, literary critic | Dresden | |||
Princess | Saint Petersburg | |||
Physicist | Saint Petersburg | Late March – early April 1872 | ||
Future emperor | Saint Petersburg | |||
Historian, journalist | Saint Petersburg | |||
Historian, journalist | Saint Petersburg | |||
Publisher, politician | Saint Petersburg | |||
Journalist, novelist | Saint Petersburg | 3 – 4 November 1873 | ||
Lawyer, judge | Saint Petersburg | |||
Stenographer, second wife | Bad Ems | |||
Poet | Staraya Russa | |||
Stenographer, second wife | Saint Petersburg | |||
Stenographer, second wife | Saint Petersburg | |||
Stenographer, second wife | Saint Petersburg | |||
Stenographer, second wife | Saint Petersburg | |||
Stenographer, second wife | Bad Ems | |||
Poet | Staraya Russa | |||
Poet | Saint Petersburg | |||
Pedagogue | Saint Petersburg | |||
Translator, correspondent | Saint Petersburg | |||
Philologist | Saint Petersburg | |||
Stenographer, second wife | Bad Ems | |||
Novelist | Bad Ems | |||
Stenographer, second wife | Bad Ems | |||
Follower of Rasputin | Bad Ems | |||
Saint Petersburg | ||||
Saint Petersburg | ||||
Translator, correspondent | Saint Petersburg | |||
Translator, correspondent | Saint Petersburg | |||
Stenographer, second wife | Saint Petersburg | |||
Stenographer, second wife | Saint Petersburg | 15 – 16 July 1877 | ||
Playwright, writer, theatrical critic, translator | Saint Petersburg | |||
Playwright, writer, theatrical critic, translator | Saint Petersburg | |||
Writer | Saint Petersburg | |||
Saint Petersburg | ||||
Pedagogue | Saint Petersburg | |||
Unknown | Saint Petersburg | |||
Novelist, publicist, journalist | Saint Petersburg | |||
Soldier | Saint Petersburg | |||
Feminist | Saint Petersburg | |||
Brother | Saint Petersburg | |||
Saint Petersburg | ||||
Stenographer, second wife | Moscow | 20 – 21 June 1878 | ||
Stenographer, second wife | Moscow | |||
Stenographer, second wife | Moscow | |||
Writer, actor | Staraya Russa | |||
Stenographer, second wife | Moscow | |||
Stenographer, second wife | Moscow | |||
Critic, literary historian | Saint Petersburg | |||
Writer | Saint Petersburg | |||
Grand Duke | Saint Petersburg | |||
Physicist | Staraya Russa | |||
Jurist, statesman, religious supervisor, Tsarist adviser | Staraya Russa | |||
Jurist, statesman, religious supervisor, Tsarist adviser | Staraya Russa | |||
Physicist | Staraya Russa | |||
Physicist | Staraya Russa | |||
Littérateur, daughter of Andrei Stackenschneider | Staraya Russa | |||
President of the National Literary Association | Staraya Russa | Early July 1879 | ||
Feminist | Staraya Russa | |||
Physicist | Bad Ems | |||
Stenographer, second wife | Bad Ems | |||
Jurist, statesman, religious supervisor, Tsarist adviser | Bad Ems | |||
Physicist | Saint Petersburg | |||
Actor | Saint Petersburg | |||
Saint Petersburg | ||||
Artist, cousin of Leo Tolstoy, daughter of sculptor Fyodor Tolstoy | Saint Petersburg | |||
Publisher, journalist | Staraya Russa | |||
Stenographer, second wife | Moscow | 23 – 24 May 1880 | ||
Stenographer, second wife | Moscow | |||
Stenographer, second wife | Moscow | |||
Stenographer, second wife | Moscow | |||
Stenographer, second wife | Moscow | |||
Stenographer, second wife | Moscow | |||
Stenographer, second wife | Moscow | 30 – 31 May 1880 | ||
Stenographer, second wife | Moscow | |||
Stenographer, second wife | Moscow | |||
Stenographer, second wife | Moscow | |||
Stenographer, second wife | Moscow | |||
Stenographer, second wife | Moscow | |||
Stenographer, second wife | Moscow | |||
Wife of Leo Tolstoy | Staraya Russa | |||
Littérateur, daughter of Andrei Stackenschneider | Staraya Russa | |||
Physicist | Staraya Russa | |||
Stenographer, second wife | Staraya Russa | |||
Wife of pedagogue Leo Polivanov | Staraya Russa | |||
Writer | Staraya Russa | |||
Littérateur | Staraya Russa | |||
Physicist | Staraya Russa | |||
Physicist | Saint Petersburg | |||
Great aunt of Leo Tolstoy | Saint Petersburg | |||
Physicist | Saint Petersburg | |||
Baroness | Saint Petersburg |
Title | Date | Notes | ||
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by Eugène Sue | Abandoned due to lack of funds | |||
by Honoré de Balzac | The only finished translation. Published in June/July 1843 in the 6th and 7th volume of the journal Repertoire and Pantheon | |||
by George Sand | Abandoned because a translation was published in 1837 | [19] | ||
by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | Proposed collaborative translation with friend Wrangel (a speaker of German)[20] | |||
by Carl Gustav Carus | Proposed collaborative translation with friend Wrangel (a speaker of German) |