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Definition of Dostoevsky
1. Noun. Russian novelist who wrote of human suffering with humor and psychological insight (1821-1881).
Generic synonyms: Author, Writer
Derivative terms: Dostoevskian, Dostoyevskian
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dostoevsky
Literary usage of Dostoevsky
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essays by Percy Stickney Grant (1922)
"... of humanity have already for the clergyman a personality. They are his familiars.
When the clergy discover Dostoevsky they will go crazy over him ..."
2. A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections by Isabel Florence Hapgood (1902)
"CHAPTER XI Dostoevsky All the writers of the ... Mikhailovitch Dostoevsky (1821-1880)
was even more sharply separated from all the rest by his ..."
3. The Russians by Richardson Little Wright (1917)
"CHAPTER IX DEFINING Dostoevsky AND SOME OTHERS SHE was a lady, a regular literary
lady, and she spoke with the air of one who does not judge books without ..."
4. A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections by Isabel Florence Hapgood (1902)
"But in this respect, Feodor Mikhailovitch Dostoevsky (1821-1880) was even more
sharply separated from all the rest by his characteristics, which almost ..."
5. Literary History of Russia by Aleksander Brückner, Ellis H. Minns (1908)
"CHAPTER XIV Dostoevsky The Mystic and Prophet in contrast to the great Realists—His
first productions give no promise of the future development —Alteration ..."
6. Great Russia: Her Achievement and Promise by Charles Sarolea (1916)
"The subject of the present chapter was preeminently such a writer. Dostoevsky seems
to have been sent into the world ..."
7. War Aims & Peace Ideals: Selections in Prose & Verse, Illustrating the by Tucker Brooke, Henry Seidel Canby (1919)
"Tolstoy's deprecation of patriotism and government is another remarkable document,
pessimistic as compared with Dostoevsky, and very significant of the ..."
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