Uncle's Dream

Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Edvard Munch, Vladimir Makovsky and Vasily Andreevich Tropinin. A provincial matchmaking comedy in which a senile prince is manoeuvred towards a marriage, and a second story about a husband who befriends his late wife's lover. Dostoevsky wrote the first in Siberian exile to earn his way back into print, and the second in Dresden ten years later....