Short Stories and Novel Excerpts by Dostoevsky in Children's Anthologies

Dostoevsky: The Complete Collection of World Children's Literature.

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When it comes to Dostoevsky and children, the following works are usually included in children's anthologies:

the stories "Marey the Peasant", "The Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree" and "A Hundred-Year-Old Woman", the fragment "At the Gentry Boarding School" from the novel "The Adolescent", excerpts from "Netochka Nezvanova", Nelly's story from "The Insulted and Injured", the notes of Varenka Dobroselova from "Poor Folk", and the excerpts Ilyushechka, At Ilyusha's Bedside, In the Captain's Family, The Doctor, The Funeral and Zhuchka from "The Brothers Karamazov"

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