Ten-year old Ellie goes with a heavy heart to her grandfather’s funeral when something extraordinary happens. The event transports her to a realm of unimaginable beauty and terror.

This newly revised abridged and annotated edition makes Dostoevsky’s novel accessible to a new generation of readers:

• It significantly economizes the length of the novel by excising over one-hundred thousand words.
• An Introductory Essay and a Guide to Russian Patronymics and Character Names explore the historical context in which the work was written, its literary genre, and other key elements of the story.
• New annotations help readers understand cultural, historical, and literary references across the text.
• New translations of all passages in French, German, and Latin make the novel maximally available to readers at all levels.

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