Uncle's Dream
Author: first_name: Fyodor
last_name: Dostoyevsky
Language: English
Year: 1888

<i>Uncle’s Dream</i> by Fyodor Dostoyevsky was written following his five year exile to Siberia where he was sent to serve in a hard labor camp.  Following what could only have been a harrowing and harsh existence in Russia’s infamous prison for political and social prisoners, one would expect Dostoyevsky’s work to have been dark and bitter.  Rather, <i>Uncle’s Dream </i>is a humorous and yet scathing commentary on Russian provincial high-society.<br><br>The story of elderly Prince K. who comes