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| | The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Dostoyevsky, Feodor Mikhailovich @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28) |
 | | DOSTOYEVSKY, FEODOR MIKHAILOVICH [Dostoyevsky, Feodor Mikhailovich], 1821-81, Russian novelist, one of the towering figures of world literature. |
 | | Dostoyevsky joined his beloved brother Mikhail in editing the magazine Time, which serialized The Insulted and The Injured (1861-62) and the record of his experience in the penal colony, The House of the Dead (1862). |
 | | Both of these themes are central to the enormously complex plot and character development of his masterpiece, The Brothers Karamazov (1879-80), generally thought to be one of the finest novels ever written. |
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