Among them: a very early Navajo autobiography and a novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky's daughter.

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"Downward-Facing Death" may not be Dostoyevsky, but I still had 10, 000 words due every month.

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Dostoyevsky, under severe legal and financial pressures from his publisher, wrote "The Gambler" in 28 fevered days.

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This Dostoyevsky-like thriller set in London deftly delineates the ugly descent of Mix Cellini from fitness equipment repairman to murderer.

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky stayed there briefly, detesting the subversive pro-Polish sentiment of what was the third-largest city in the tsarist empire.

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He could have stepped out of the pages of Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky.

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Many also admit to wrongly claiming to have read the classics, including authors Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Herman Melville.

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He was the most transparently ambitious writer of his era, seeing himself in competition not just with his contemporaries but with the likes of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky.

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He took a step backward and was about to leave when his eyes fell again on the stack of the books, Zola, Dostoyevsky, Hugo, all the titles had been there, as they were a few weeks before.

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