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"Injured and Insulted People" is one of his important works. The novel describes the persecution of the "little people" by the bourgeois adventurer Valkovsky, especially the two weak women: the housekeeper's daughter Natasha and his illegitimate daughter Nellie, as well as the tragedies of the two families that he single-handedly caused.

"Notes from the House of the Dead" occupies an important position in the history of world literature. It is the most important and influential work published by the great Russian writer Dostoevsky in the 19th century during the Russian serfdom reform period. Known as a strange book that cannot be ignored in the history of world literature, it describes the explosion of extreme human nature in extreme environments. Based on his own personal experience, the author described his experiences during hard labor in a calm and objective style. The whole book is composed of independent chapters such as memories, essays, close-ups, and stories, which vividly displays the terrible situation and mental state of various types of convicts, and outlines the unique personalities of various characters.

"The Brothers Karamazov" is Dostoevsky's masterpiece. The story comes from a real patricide case and describes the contradictions and conflicts between two generations. The protagonist Karamazov has four sons: Dmitry, Ivan, Alyosha and the illegitimate son Smerdyakov. The old Karamazov, who has reached his twilight years, does not change his greedy and lustful nature. He not only seizes the inheritance left by his wife to the children, but also becomes jealous of a romantic woman with his eldest son Dmitri, which leads to disharmony between father and son. Dmitri hated his father and threatened to kill him. One night, he suspected that his father was having a tryst with his lover. In a rage, he beat his father seriously and fled in a hurry. That night, old Karamazov died and Dmitri was arrested. However, the real murderer was the illegitimate son Smerdyakov. In order to vent his long-standing grudges, he secretly brutally killed his seriously injured father. This confusing murder triggered a series of thrilling stories. The ending of the novel is very tragic: Dmitry is innocently imprisoned, Smerdyakov commits suicide in fear of crime, Ivan becomes insane, and Alyosha leaves for a foreign country. The novel is a faithful record of the social era. On the surface, "The Brothers Karamazov" is about a patricide case, about the entangled grievances between a father and his sons. In fact, this family tragedy is also a metaphor for the disintegration of the Tsarist autocratic society. The theme of the novel is the human spirit and the moral battle between faith, suspicion, reason and free will. Since the 10th century AD, Christianity has become the spiritual pillar of Russians, carrying many connotations such as society, morality, and humanity. However, after the serfdom reform in the 19th century, the materialistic desires and moral decay brought about by the development of capitalism increasingly fragmented Russian society. The democratic revolutionary movement against the tsarist autocratic rule was in full swing. Various social trends impacted the traditional Russian value system, and atheists began to question the existence of God. These social, political, economic, religious and philosophical trends of thought profoundly influenced Dostoevsky's thoughts and creations. Similarly, the writer's own life experience also has an important impact on novel creation. During his exile in Siberia, Dostoevsky came into contact with the prototype of the patricide case - a young man who was wrongly convicted of killing his father for financial gain. About 10 years later, the real murderer was brought to justice and the young man was acquitted. In 1878, Dostoevsky began writing "The Brothers Karamazov", and this story became the main plot of the novel. In May of the same year, Dostoevsky's three-year-old son Alyosha unfortunately died of epilepsy inherited from his family. His spirit suffered a heavy blow and his creation was temporarily suspended. Picking up the pen again, the writer incorporated the pain of losing his son into the novel and created Alyosha, who has the same name as his son, making him the embodiment of faith and virtue. At the end of the novel, Alyosha encourages the children to be friendly, kind, and honest. "We will definitely be resurrected" and our spirits will be immortal. Obviously, Alyosha placed his thoughts on the writer's thoughts on his son, as well as his deeper universal feelings. "The Brothers Karamazov", which was born in the 19th century, has a strong color of critical realism and also contains many modern elements. The epic work contains profound philosophy, various writing techniques, an omniscient narrator who is closely connected with the characters in the novel, a distinctive language style, and a meticulous psychological portrayal. All these constitute a bizarre, profound and profound world, which has influenced countless readers and many literary schools and writers in later generations. Freud praised the book as "the greatest novel in history"; Kafka believed that he had a "blood relationship" with Dostoevsky; Joyce said in no uncertain terms that Dostoevsky "had a profound influence" on him. "The Brothers Karamazov" is like an accurate miniature of human nature. This statement is true. Although he was not the pioneer of psychological narrative, he was a master who carried forward the description of psychological consciousness. Dostoevsky did not give a standard answer to the profound and difficult problems of human nature, which requires the insight and understanding of every reader. In the writer's words, there will always be rainy days and sunny days in life, but there will always be sunny days after rain.

The novel describes Raskolnikov, a poor college student, who is poisoned by anarchist ideas, coupled with emotional tension and anxiety, and is full of resentment towards society. Later, forced to make a living, he killed the old woman who was a loan shark and her innocent sister, causing a murder that shocked the whole of Russia. After experiencing a painful inner struggle, he met Sonia, a girl with a holy soul - a prostitute who fell into prostitution for the sake of an unfortunate family. This eventually became his path to atonement and the dawn of new life...

This book is Dostoevsky's masterpiece that integrates social novels, suspense novels, psychological novels and other types of novels with educational novels. In this noisy and impetuous world, the protagonist of this book faces a changing society that lacks faith and ideals. Due to lack of experience, he is extremely confused and hesitant. He has gone through twists and tribulations, encountered many tests and spiritual pain. Fortunately, he has always had a positive and persistent pursuit, and later received many good influences. After experiencing the struggle of exploring "good" and "evil", he finally woke up and completed his spiritual growth.

"Notes from the Underground" embodies all the artistic characteristics of Dostoevsky's poetics. It is profound in content and strange in form. It is like a novel, a confession, and a philosophical essay. The protagonist of the work looks like a bad guy and a good guy; a villain and a resigned person who has experienced many vicissitudes of life; a hero and a "non-hero" and nothing at all. ... The "basement man" is considered to be a "typical egotist", but some people believe that the "basement man" is the Russian Hamlet, a contemporary variant of the "superfluous man". Dostoevsky was the "seeker of truth" of his time. "Notes from the Underground" has become an increasingly popular book and is considered the preface to Dostoevsky's five novels and a milestone in his creative career. The depth of the human heart, the suffering of the human heart, the helplessness and tragedy of the human heart, everything that everyone has personally experienced but cannot express in words, are all contained in this book.

This book is a collection of Dostoevsky's famous short stories, including Other People's Wives, Human Dreams, etc.

"White Nights" tells the story of four nights of heart-to-heart exchanges between a man who lives by fantasy and Nastenka, a girl whose parents died when she was young, who lives with her grandmother and has a lifelong private contract with her tenant. The pursuit of love has closely linked them together, turning them from strangers into confidants and even lovers. However, the commitment and care for love have made them return to their respective places. The former is still living in fantasy, while the latter is getting married to the one he loves.

"Demons" is the most controversial work of the great Russian writer Dostoevsky. The work created a portrait of the old liberal intellectuals in the 1840s and the radical youth in the early 1970s. Liberal intellectuals represented by Stepan Trofimovich had social conscience and advocated truth, goodness and beauty, but at the same time they were timid and mediocre; social radicals represented by Peter Verkhovinsky opposed the old social order and despised the powerful, but at the same time they were cunning, vicious and shameless. The other protagonist, Stavrogin, is a typical Dostoevsky character. He has a dual personality. On the one hand, he is despicable, dissolute, and an extreme hedonist. His soul and body are far away from Christ, and he lives a devilish life; Stavrogin has a strong sense of guilt, but he is unable to bear his own sins and cannot redeem himself, so he can only eliminate his sins by annihilating his own body-committing suicide. In this world full of evil, there is always some sense of goodness, and a faint light shines brightly or covertly in everyone.

"Crime and Punishment" is an outstanding social psychological novel. It describes the story of Raskolnikov, a poor college student who was poisoned by anarchist ideas and believed that he was a superman and could do whatever he wanted. Forced to make a living, he killed the old loan shark Alyona and her innocent sister Lizaveta, creating a murder that shocked the whole of Russia. After experiencing a painful confession, he finally surrendered under the persuasion of the Christian girl Sophia and was sentenced to exile in Siberia. The work focuses on depicting the protagonist's psychological changes after committing a crime and reveals the miserable life of the Russian lower class people.

"Crime and Punishment" is one of the masterpieces of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, the great Russian writer of the 19th century. The novel describes Raskolnikov, a poor college student who wanted to become a Napoleonic figure and believed that he was a superman. He was poisoned by anarchist ideas and forced by life. He killed the old landlady who was a loan shark and her innocent sister, and committed a murder that shocked the whole of Russia. After experiencing a painful confession, he finally surrendered under the persuasion of the Christian girl Sonia and was sentenced to exile in Siberia. The work focuses on the protagonist's mental state of being condemned by his conscience and feeling deeply lonely and fearful after committing a crime, and depicts his psychological changes before and after the crime. On the one hand, the novel depicts the miserable life of the lower class people in Russia and exposes the evils of aristocratic society; on the other hand, it also promotes the idea of ​​accepting one's fate and seeking liberation from religion.

"The Insulted and Injured" was serialized in issues 1 to 7 of The Times in 1861. Because it is a long series, in order to attract readers, the plot of the novel must be fascinating, with ups and downs, climax after another, and it must be interrupted suddenly when it reaches the climax, so that people can continue to read the next issue. Therefore, this type of novel was called "essay-style novel" at that time, and it was famous for its tense and tortuous plot. This book is the first important work Dostoevsky completed after returning to Petersburg from exile. The novel describes the tragedy of two families caused by the bourgeois adventurer Valkovsky. First, he embezzled the only farm belonging to the poor and declining Ikhmenev noble family, and ruined the marriage between Ikhmenev's daughter Natasha and his son Alyosha in order to marry Katya, who had a millionaire fortune, as his daughter-in-law. The other is the old man Smith's family. His daughter was abandoned by Valkovsky from beginning to end, defrauded of her property, and died of poverty and illness. Smith eventually died of poverty. Smith's granddaughter cannot forgive her father, Valkovsky. Her stubbornness and crazy spirit of resistance arouse people's sympathy for those who are "insulted and damaged" and their hatred for the dark society, which shows the realism power of the novel. In the novel, these unfortunate people are often resigned, showing a sense of despair with no way out.

"Crime and Punishment" is an excellent social psychological novel and the masterpiece that won Dostoevsky worldwide reputation. The novel takes the protagonist's crime and the punishment of his conscience and morality as the main line, and extensively describes the desperate plight of the poor in Russian cities and the increasingly acute social contradictions. With true sympathy and full of anger, the author mercilessly presents the darkness, abject poverty, despair and filth of the Russian capital in the 1860s to readers.

"The Brothers Karamazov" is an unsurpassed example of crime fiction. It is Dostoevsky's last novel and his pinnacle. The novel was serialized in the "Russian Herald" for two years and was completed in 1880. Dostoevsky himself passed away just four months after writing this masterpiece. The novel uses a real patricide case to describe the conflict between the old Karamazov and his three sons, that is, two generations. The old Karamazov was greedy for money and lustful. He monopolized the inheritance left by his wife to his sons, and was jealous of a romantic woman with his eldest son Dmitri. One night, Dmitri suspected that his lover was having a tryst with the old man, so he broke into his home and almost killed the old man. The work shows a moral and human tragedy and embodies the writer's high artistic achievements in his life.

"The Brothers Karamazov (Part 2)": The old Karamazov is greedy and lustful, monopolizing the inheritance left by his wife to his sons, and he and his eldest son Dmitri are jealous of a romantic woman. One night, Dmitry suspected that his lover was having a tryst with the old man, so he broke into his home and almost beat the old man to death in a rage. After he fled in panic, the old Karamazov's illegitimate son Smerdyakov, who was hiding in secret and pretending to be ill, secretly killed the old man, causing a complicated and confusing murder that shocked the whole of Russia, and triggered a series of thrilling events. The work shows the intricate social and family conflicts and human tragedy, and embodies the highest artistic achievement of the writer's life.

"Double Personality" is one of Dostoevsky's important works. It caused a huge response when it was published. It clearly reflects Dostoevsky's creative characteristics. The exploration of the human heart was advanced at the time and is still of practical significance today.

"The Possessed" is a novel written by the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky. The work was first serialized in "Russian Bulletin" from 1871 to 1872. The story of "Demons" is based on the Nechaev case that occurred in Moscow in 1869. Nechaev (1847-1882) was an auditor at Petersburg University and actively participated in the student movement in Petersburg in the spring of 1869. After running abroad, he got close to Bakunin in Geneva and learned the conspiracy tactics of anarchism. In September 1869, Nechayev arrived in Moscow with a plan to establish a secret organization against the government, and also brought with him a letter of authorization from the "Russian Branch of the World Revolutionary Alliance" signed by Bakunin. He established a secret group and conspired to establish the "People's Punishment Association." On November 21, 1869, Nechayev used malicious incitement, deception and intimidation to force a group of members of the "People's Punishment Association" to assassinate Ivanov near Moscow on the pretext that Ivanov might inform the authorities.

"The Brothers Karamazov" is Dostoevsky's last novel and his pinnacle. The novel was serialized in the "Russian Herald" for two years and was completed in 1880. Dostoevsky himself passed away just four months after writing this masterpiece. The novel uses a real patricide case to describe the sharp conflict between the old Karamazov and his three sons, that is, two generations. The old Karamazov was greedy for money and lustful. He monopolized the inheritance left by his wife to his sons, and was jealous of a romantic woman with his eldest son Dmitri. One night, Dmitri suspected that his lover was having a tryst with the old man, so he broke into his home and almost beat the old man to death in a rage. After Dmitry fled in panic, the old Karamazov's illegitimate son Smerdyakov, who was hiding in secret and pretending to be ill, secretly killed the old man, causing a complicated and confusing murder that shocked the whole of Russia...

In 1869, Nechayev, a college student who believed in anarchism, conspired to establish the "People's Punishment Society" in Moscow. On the pretext that former member Ivanov might inform the authorities, he instigated his associates to assassinate him, and Nechayev himself fled abroad. Inspired by this horrific case, Dostoevsky spent two years writing the novel "The Demons." The novel creates a group of characters with complex personalities: Stavrogin, a transhumanist who denies everything, Kirillov, a madman who attempts to commit suicide and become a god, Peter, a conspirator who uses revolution as a means to satisfy his selfish desires, and those bewitched, devout and fanatical idealists. Behind their ridiculous or heinous behavior, there is a deep tragedy hidden. The nihilism caused by extreme rationality and individualism is a by-product of modern industrial civilization. When people break away from the land and people, abandon all morals and traditions, have no faith, no love, no fear, and no refuge, while winning freedom, they also suffer hellish pain. "Demons" is not only a portrayal of the social reality of Russia in the mid-to-late 19th century, but also a prediction of the spiritual dilemma that contemporary people still cannot escape.

"Notes from the Underground" is a novel written by the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky. The book is narrated in the first person by the protagonist, the Basement Man, who is a retired civil servant in his forties. His heart is full of pathological inferiority, but he often analyzes himself. The book mainly consists of two parts: The first part is a long monologue by the man in the basement, which discusses philosophical issues such as free will, human irrationality, and historical irrationality. The second part is about the basement man tracing his past and how he met Lisa, a prostitute. "Notes from the Underground" is not only Dostoevsky's masterpiece, but also previews his five subsequent important novels: "Crime and Punishment", "The Idiot", "The Demons", "The Boy", and "The Brothers Karamazov". The book is also considered a turning point in Dostoevsky's creative process. Nobel Prize winner Gide believed: "This novel is the pinnacle of his writing career, his masterpiece, or, if you like, it can be said to be the key to his thoughts."

"Crime and Punishment" is one of the representative works of the 19th-century Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky. The work focuses on the protagonist's mental state of being condemned by his conscience and feeling deeply lonely and fearful after committing the crime. It depicts his psychological changes before and after the crime, and reveals the difficult life of the lower class people in Russia. "The Idiot" is one of Dostoevsky's best works. The plot of this book is tense, tortuous, and has climaxes that are exciting. In particular, the psychological description in it deeply analyzes the multi-facetedness and complexity of human beings, and has a strong artistic appeal. "Demons" is a very controversial work by the great Russian writer Dostoevsky. The work created a portrait of the old liberal intellectuals in the 1840s and the radical youth in the early 1970s. In this world full of evil, there is always some sense of goodness, and a faint light shines brightly or covertly in everyone. "The Brothers Karamazov" is one of Dostoevsky's masterpieces. The novel uses a real patricide case to describe the sharp conflict between the old Karamazov and his three sons, that is, two generations. "The Insulted and Injured" was serialized in issues 1 to 7 of The Times in 1861. Because it is a long series, in order to attract readers, the plot of the novel must be fascinating, with ups and downs, climax after another, and it must be interrupted suddenly when it reaches the climax, so that people can continue to read the next issue. Therefore, this type of novel was called "essay-style novel" at that time, and it was famous for its tense and tortuous plot. This book is the first important work Dostoevsky completed after returning to Petersburg from exile. The novel describes the tragedy of two families caused by the bourgeois adventurer Valkovsky. "Youth" is Dostoevsky's masterpiece that integrates social novels, suspense novels, psychological novels and other types of novels with educational novels. "Notes from the Underground" is a collection of Dostoevsky's novellas, which selects five of Dostoevsky's representative novellas: "The Poor Man", "White Nights", "The Resident of Stepanchikovo", "Notes from the Underground" and "The Crocodile".

Duke Myshkin returns to Russia and is simply regarded as an "idiot" because of his kindness. He is involved in the emotional entanglements and tragic fates of Nastasya, Rogozhin, Hippolyte and others, revealing the good and evil of human nature and the absurdity of society.