"Fortunately for the reader, Dostoevski's desperation of human nature drove him to ridicule rather than to melancholy, and for ridicule he was admirably equipped with a lively and stinging wit."-Boston Transcript
?Fortunately for the reader, Dostoevski's desperation of human nature drove him to ridicule rather than to melancholy, and for ridicule he was admirably equipped with a lively and stinging wit.?-Boston Transcript