The Insulted and Injured (also known in English as Humiliated and Insulted, The Insulted and Humiliated, The Insulted and the Injured or Injury and Insult), which came out in 1861, was Fyodor Dostoevsky's first major work of fiction after his Siberian exile and the first of the long novels that made him famous. Set in nineteenth-century Petersburg, this gripping novel features a vividly drawn set of characters -- including Vanya (Dostoevsky's semi-autobiographical hero), Natasha (the woman he loves), and Alyosha (Natasha's aristocratic lover) -- all suffering from the cruelly selfish machinations of Alyosha's father, the dark and powerful Prince Valkovsky.
The Insulted and the Injured unfolds the emotional tragedy of a young woman who abandons her family and her good name for the sake of a grand passion. The story is related in a flashback as a chain of events that began in St. Petersburg a year before the book opens. The narrator is a penniless young author, Ivan Petrovitch, who becomes the confidant of all the other characters and is therefore able to explain their thoughts and motivations.
Here are, to a greater extent than in Dostoevsky's more familiar works, flesh-and-blood people as we see them around every day. They are made up of both good and evil, of will and acceptance. Unfailingly they command interest and illuminate understanding.
We offer you this bilingual English-Russian edition, believing that reading parallel texts and inferring the vocabulary and grammar is a far superior method of language learning than traditional memorization. It is also much less painful.

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