The Double Psychological Thriller Classic Unabridged Edition

Download or read book The Double - Psychological Thriller (Classic Unabridged Edition) written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2015-05-24 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "The Double - Psychological Thriller (Classic Unabridged Edition)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Double centers on a government clerk who goes mad. It deals with the internal psychological struggle of its main character, Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, who repeatedly encounters someone who is his exact double in appearance but confident, aggressive, and extroverted, characteristics that are the polar opposites to those of the toadying "pushover" protagonist. The motif of the novella is a doppelgänger. Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. His literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmosphere of 19th-century Russia.