Not only literary critics, but also philosophers, cultural scientists, sociologists, theologians have been arguing about the great Russian writer F. M. Dostoevsky for a century and a half. The world fame of the writer was determined by five novels: "Crime and Punishment", "Idiot", "Demons", "Teenager", "Brothers Karamazov". But no less interesting are other works that can be called an overture to the great Pentateuch, because they were the beginning of Dostoevsky's painful reflections on the "mystery of man". This edition includes the early novellas "The Double" and "Mr. Prokharchin", as well as the novel "The Gambler".