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The Heavenly Christmas Tree

Author
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Series
World Classics
Language
English
Length
14 pages
ISBN
9781911263067
Published
15 February 2016
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Dostoyevsky
  • Dostoyevskiy
  • Christmas
  • Dostoevsky
  • idealism
  • rationalism
  • empiricism
  • materialism
  • utilitarianism
  • positivism

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Description

A freezing Christmas Eve, a cellar, a child in the street looking in at other people’s warmth. Dostoyevsky’s Heavenly Christmas Tree is short, severe, and lit from inside: hunger, imagined splendour, and a mercy that is not of this pavement. The festival seen from below. It is barely a story and entirely a season: frost, windows, a tree that is not in the street. Dostoyevsky’s Christmas is not cocoa; it is the question of who is left outside. Christmas from the cellar, not the parlour.

Author

Fyodor Dostoyevsky was a Russian writer and philosopher who is considered to be one of the greatest novelists of all time. His major works include Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and War and Peace. Dostoyevsky was known for his psychological insight, his criticism of social injustice, and his profound understanding of the human condition.

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