UNCLE'S DREAM AND OTHER STORIES

Gone is the contained, brooding, dream-prone atmopshere of his earlier stories; instead Uncle's Dreams is narrated with firm objectivity, combining satire, social reportage, puppet theatre and farce in its comic send-up of small-town manners and morals.
Dostoyevsky's inspiration for 'The Meek Girlcame' from a newspaper report on the suicide of a seamstress who plunged from a garret window, holding a religious icon in her hands.