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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org . If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook. Title : Uncle's Dream; and The Permanent Husband Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky Translator : Frederick Whishaw Release date : December 6, 2011 [eBook #38241] Language : English Other information and formats : www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38241 *** START OF Uncle's Dream; AND The Permanent Husband. CELEBRATED RUSSIAN NOVELS By FEDOR DOSTOIEFFSKY. Translated from the original Russian by Fred. Whishaw. “ There are three Russian novelists who, though, with one exception, little known out of their own country, stand head and shoulders above most of their contemporaries. In the opinion of some not indifferent critics, they are superior to all other novelists of this generation. Two of them, Dostoieffsky and Turgenieff, died not long ago; the third, Lyof Tolstoi, still lives. The one with the most marked individuality of character, probably the most highly gifted, was unquestionably Dostoieffsky. ” — Spectator. In crown 8vo. containing nearly 500 pages, price 6s. THE IDIOT. “ Is unquestionably a work of great power and originality. M. Dostoieffsky crowds his canvas with living organisms, depicted with extreme vividness. ” — Scotsman. In crown 8vo, price 5s. THE FRIEND OF THE FAMILY; AND THE GAMBLER. “ Dostoieffsky is one of the keenest observers of humanity amongst modern novelists. Both stories are very valuable as pictures of a society and a people with whom we are imperfectly acquainted, but who deserve the closest scrutiny. ” — Public Opinion. Third edition. In crown 8vo, with Portrait and Memoir, price 5s. INJURY AND INSULT. “ That ‘ Injury and Insult ’ is a powerful novel few will deny. Vania is a marvellous character. Once read, the book can never be forgotten. ” — St. Stephen's Review. “ A masterpiece of fiction. The author has treated with consummate tact the difficult character of Natasha, ‘ the incarnation of the slave of passion. ’ She lives and breathes in these vivid pages, and the reader is drawn into the vortex of her anguish, and rejoices when she breaks free from her chain. ” — Morning Post. Third edition. In crown 8vo, 450 pages, price 6s. CRIME AND PUNISHMENT. “ Dostoieffsky is one of the most remarkable of modern writers, and his book, ‘ Crime and Punishment ’ is one of the most moving of modern novels. It is the story of a murder and of the punishment which dogs the murderer; and its effect is unique in fiction. It is realism, but such realism as M. Zola and his followers do not dream of. The reader knows the personages—strange grotesque, terrible personages they are—more intimately than if he had been years with them in the flesh. He is constrained to live their lives, to suffer their tortures, to scheme and resist with them, exult with them, weep and laugh and despair with them; he breathes the very breath of their nostrils, and with the madness that comes upon them he is afflicted even as they. This sounds extravagant praise, no doubt; but only to those who have not read the volume. To those who have, we are sure that it will appear rather under the mark than otherwise. ” — The Athenæum. VIZETELLY'S RUSSIAN NOVELS. Uncle's Dream; AND The Permanent Husband. By FEDOR DOSTOIEFFSKY, AUTHOR OF “ CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, ” “ INJURY AND INSULT, ” “ THE IDIOT, ” “ THE FRIEND OF THE FAMILY; AND THE GAMBLER. ” TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN BY FREDERICK WHISHAW. LONDON: VIZETELLY & CO., 16, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 1888. Contents Uncle's Dream. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER X. CHAPTER XI. CHAPTER XII. CHAPTER XIII. CHAPTER XIV. CHAPTER XV. Footnotes The Permanent Husband CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER X. CHAPTER XI. CHAPTER XII. CHAPTER XIII. CHAPTER XIV. CHAPTER XV. CHAPTER XVI. CHAPTER XVII. UNCLE'S DREAM. CHAPTER I. Maria Alexandrovna Moskaleva was the principal lady of Mordasoff—there was no doubt whatever on that point! She always bore herself as though she did not care a fig for anyone, but as though no one else could do without her . True, there were uncommonly few who loved her—in fact I may say that very many detested her; still, everyone was afraid of her, and that was what she liked! Now, why did Maria Alexandrovna, who dearly loves scandal, and cannot sleep at night unless she has heard something new and piquant the day before,—why, or how did she know how to bear herself so that it would never strike anyone, looking at her, to suppose that the dignified lady was the most inveterate scandal-monger in the world—or at all events in Mordasoff? On the contrary, anyone would have said at once, that scandals and such-like pettiness must vanish in her presence; and that scandal-mongers, caught red-handed by Maria Alexandrovna, would blush and tremble, like schoolboys at the entrance of the master; and that the talk would immediately be diverted into channels of the loftiest and most sublime subjects so soon as she entered the room. Maria Alexandrovna knew many deadly and scandalous secrets of certain other Mordasoff inhabitants, which, if she liked to reveal them at any convenient opportunity, would produce results little less terrible than the earthquake of Lisbon. Still, she was very quiet about the secrets she knew, and never let them out except in cases of absolute need, and then only to her nearest and dearest friends. She liked to hint that she knew certain things, and frighten people out of their wits; preferring to keep them in a state of perpetual terror, rather than crush them altogether. This was real talent—the talent of tactics. We all considered Maria Alexandrovna as our type and model of irreproachable comme-i