Humiliated and Insulted (Russian: Unizhennye i oskorblyonye), also known in English as The Insulted and Humiliated, The Insulted and the Injured or Injury and Insult, is a novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, first published in 1861 in the monthly magazine Vremya.

Narrated by a young author, Vanya, who has just released his first novel which bears an obvious resemblance to Dostoyevsky's own first novel, Poor Folk, it consists of two gradually converging subplots. One deals with Vanya's close friend and former love object, Natasha, who has left her family to live with her new lover, Alyosha. Alyosha is the saintly but dimwitted son of Prince Valkovsky, who hopes to gain financially by marrying Alyosha off to an heiress, Katya. Valkovsky's cruel machinations to break up Alyosha and Natasha make him one of the most memorable "predatory types" (like Stavrogin in The Possessed) that Dostoyevsky created. The other branch of the plot deals with the approximately 13-year old orphan Nellie, whom Vanya saves from an abusive household by taking her into his apartment, and whose deceased mother's story in some ways parallels that of Natasha. It's unusual to see a well-developed character as young as Nellie in a Dostoyevsky novel, but Nellie may be one of his most moving creations, and she in particular shows the influence of Dickens (Dostoyevsky is known to have read Dickens during the Siberian exile; this novel was conceived near the end of this exile. In turn, Japanese director Akira Kurosawa adapted Nellie's story, to fine effect, in his 1965 film, Red Beard).
One of the most important themes throughout Dostoyevsky's work is the expiative value of suffering, and The Insulted and Injured, with its tragically moving plot and characters, develops that theme.

• We started tracking this book on August 25, 2015.
• This book was $6.53 when we started tracking it.
• The price of this book has changed 79 times in the past 3,333 days.
• The current price of this book is $3.99 last checked 10 hours ago.
• The lowest price to date was $3.99 last reached on September 18, 2024.
• This book has been $3.99 16 times since we started tracking it.
• The highest price to date was $6.53 last reached on August 25, 2015.
• This book has been $6.53 one time since we started tracking it.
• This book is currently at its lowest price since we started tracking it.

• Literature & Fiction

• Text-to-Speech: Disabled
• Lending: Disabled
• Print Length: 406 Pages
• File Size: 1,745 KB