Humiliated and Insulted: New Translation educational Since earth became inhospitable

Since earth became inhospitable

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Humiliated and Insulted: New Translation educational Since earth became inhospitableFirst published in 1861, Humiliated and Insulted plunges the reader into a world of moral degradation, childhood trauma, unrequited love and irreconcilable relationships. At the centre of the story are a young struggling author, an orphaned teenager and a depraved aristocrat, who not only foreshadows the great figures of evil in Dostoevsky's later fiction, but is a powerful and original presence in his own right. This new translation catches the verve