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Later compilation

Epigrams and Humorous Verse

Эпиграммы и шуточные стихотворения

Retrato de Fiódor Dostoievski, por Vasili Perov
byFyodor Dostoevsky

It comprises: 'Epigram on a Bavarian Colonel' and 'Tell me, why did you ruin it so…' (1864), against the journal Golos; the verse pamphlet 'The Struggle of Nihilism with Honesty (An Officer and a Nihilist Girl)' (1864–1873); 'Describing nothing but priests' (1873), on Leskov; 'Little children cost dear' (1876–1877) and 'Do not steal, Fedul' (1879), family verses; 'The Crash of Baimakov's Office' (1876); and the domestic verses written with Anna in Geneva and Milan: 'I asked my wife for soap…', 'All in tears of indignation…', 'For two generations we have lived poor…' and 'Brother, have you any conscience…' (1867–1869).

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Authorship note

An editorial grouping of occasional verses and jokes in verse, mostly preserved in notebooks and letters and published posthumously in vol. 17 of the 30-volume Complete Works. They do not form a book by the author.

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Русский

  • Полное собрание сочинений в тридцати томах, t. 17

    Naúka, Leningrado

    Edición académica de referencia (1972–1990)

Other works by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Sources

  • «Fyodor Dostoevsky bibliography», Wikipedia en inglés (lista destacada, con primeras ediciones, revistas y primeros traductores) y «Библиография Фёдора Достоевского», Wikipedia en ruso.

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