The Double - Dover Thrift Editions Author:Fyodor Dostoyevsky Most significant of the Russian novelist’s early stories (1846) offers a straight-faced treatment of a hallucinatory theme. Golyadkin senior is a powerless target of persecution by Golyadkin junior, his double in almost every respect. Familiar Dostoyevskan themes of helplessness, victimization, scandal—beautifully handled in small ma... more »sterpiece.« less