Sämtliche Werke 22: Ein kleiner Held : Vier Novellen by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"Sämtliche Werke 22: Ein kleiner Held : Vier Novellen" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a collection of novellas written in the mid-to-late 19th century. The volume gathers stories bound by themes of childhood and early emotional awakenings within adult social worlds. In the first novella, an almost eleven-year-old boy visiting a lavish country estate near Moscow is drawn into the games, rivalries, and hidden tensions of the grown-ups, especially a mischievous blonde beauty,
the reserved and sorrowful Mme M., and her vain, controlling husband. The opening of the collection follows the boy’s arrival amid endless parties and entertainments, where he is teased publicly by the flirtatious blonde and quietly captivated by the gentle, melancholy Mme M. He witnesses her unease around her husband and senses a secret sorrow, while a passing cavalcade hints at unspoken ties. At a lunch-table skirmish the blonde makes him the butt of a joke about his supposed infatuation, driving him to tears and retreat—only for him soon after to seize a reckless chance at redemption by mounting a notorious, unbroken horse and surviving the wild ride. His courage wins sudden admiration, elicits a telling exchange of glances with Mme M., and transforms the blonde’s mockery into protective warmth. A rainy village outing follows; Mme M. lends him her scarf, the blonde tends him like a friend, and the section closes with the boy waking joyful the next morning and slipping into the woods, his feelings newly awakened. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881 |
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| Contributor | Filosofov, Dmitriĭ Vladimirovich, 1872-1940 |
| Contributor | Merezhkovsky, Dmitry Sergeyevich, 1865-1941 |
| Editor | Moeller van den Bruck, Arthur, 1876-1925 |
| Translator | Rahsin, E. K., 1886-1966 |
| Title | Sämtliche Werke 22: Ein kleiner Held : Vier Novellen |
| Original Publication | Muenchen: Piper, 1912. |
| Contents | Ein kleiner Held -- Weihnacht und Hochzeit -- Njetotschka Neswanowa -- Der Bettelknabe. |
| Credits | The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net. This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library. |
| Language | German |
| LoC Class | PG: Language and Literatures: Slavic (including Russian), Languages and Literature |
| Subject | Russian fiction -- Translations into German |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 76986 |
| Release Date | Oct 5, 2025 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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