A Gentle Spirit & A Faint Heart
Two of Dostoevsky's most powerful novellas of obsession, cruelty, and the fragility of the heart
A pawnbroker paces beside his young wife's body, attempting to piece together the circumstances that led to her suicide. A young man is overwhelmed by his own contentment and sows his ruin in a fierce attempt to protect it.
BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days