Sämtliche Werke 19 : Die Erniedrigten und Beleidigten by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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"Sämtliche Werke 19 : Die Erniedrigten und Beleidigten" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a novel written in the mid-19th century. It unfolds as a Petersburg tale of love, pride, and humiliation, narrated by the young writer Ivan Petrovich as he looks back on a tragic year. The story centers on his bond with Natascha Ichmenyeva, her devoted but embattled parents, and their entanglement with the calculating Prince Valkovsky and his impressionable son Alyosha.
Expect intimate psychology, social cruelty, and the aching vulnerability of people poised between tenderness and ruin. The opening of the novel follows Ivan’s search for a new room, his fascination with a decrepit old man and his ancient dog in a German confectionery, and a silent confrontation that ends with the dog’s sudden death and, moments later, the old man’s collapse and demise in a nearby alley. Ivan helps identify the man as Jeremias Smitt, finds his stark poverty, and then rents his cheap garret, framing his tale from a hospital bed as he prepares to recount the last, hardest year. He sketches his past: orphaned and raised with Natascha by the kind Ichmenyev family, idyllic childhood memories, and the rise and souring of their ties to Prince Valkovsky, including the prince’s biography, the banishment of Alyosha to the estate, slanders, a lawsuit, and the family’s move to Petersburg. He recalls his first literary success and a tender, tacit engagement with Natascha, before hinting that, a year later, he returns shattered, as if an unseen catastrophe has opened an abyss between them. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881 |
|---|---|
| Contributor | Filosofov, Dmitriĭ Vladimirovich, 1872-1940 |
| Contributor | Merezhkovsky, Dmitry Sergeyevich, 1865-1941 |
| Editor | Moeller van den Bruck, Arthur, 1876-1925 |
| Translator | Rahsin, E. K., 1886-1966 |
| Uniform Title | Unizhennye i oskorblennye. German |
| Title | Sämtliche Werke 19 : Die Erniedrigten und Beleidigten |
| Original Publication | Muenchen: Piper, 1910. |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humiliated_and_Insulted |
| Note | Translation of: Униженные и оскорблённые (Unizhennye i oskorblennye). |
| Credits | The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net. This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library. |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 82.5 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | German |
| LoC Class | PG: Language and Literatures: Slavic (including Russian), Languages and Literature |
| Subject | Russia -- Fiction |
| Subject | Russian fiction -- Translations into German |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 76485 |
| Release Date | Jul 12, 2025 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 371 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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