num_pages: 304
description: Gone is the contained, brooding, dream-prone atmopshere of his earlier stories; instead Uncle's Dream is narrated with firm objectivity, combining satire, social reportage, puppet theatre and farce in its comic send-up of small-town manners and morals.Dostoyevsky's inspiration for The Meek Girl came from a newspaper report on the suicide of a seamstress who plunged from a garret window, holding a religious icon in her hands. According to the critic John Jones, it is "one of the most powerful studies of despair in world literature, a banging on closed doors imagined with abosolute fearlessness."
language: English
title: Uncle's Dream and Other Stories
titlecomplete: Uncle's Dream and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)
genres: Classics, Criticism, Social, Short Stories, Russia, Russian Literature, Literature, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 132
publisher: Penguin Classics