A Gentle Spirit: A Fantastic Story - 9781535097857

A Gentle Spirit sometimes also translated as "The Meek One", is a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky in 1876. The piece comes with the subtitle of "A Fantastic Story", and it chronicles the relationship between a pawnbroker and a girl that frequents his shop. The story was inspired by a news report that Dostoyevsky read in April 1876 about the suicide of a seamstress. Dostoyevsky referred to it as a "meek suicide" that "keeps haunting you for a long time."

• | Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Andrea Gouveia
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Jul 05, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 44 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 153509785X
• | ISBN-13: 9781535097857