This file includes: Poor Folk (1846, The House of the Dead (1862), Notes from the Underground (1864), Crime and Punishment (1866), The Gambler (1867), The Idiot (1869), The Possessed (1872), and The Brothers Karamazov (1881). According to Wikipedia: "Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky (November 11, 1821 February 9,1881) was a Russian writer, essayist and philosopher, perhaps most recognized today for his novels Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov. Dostoyevsky is considered to be one of Europe's major novelists. His literary output explores human psychology in the troubled political, social and spiritual context of 19th-century Russian society. Considered by many as a founder or precursor of 20th century existentialism, his Notes from Underground (1864), written in the embittered voice of the anonymous "underground man", was called by Walter Kaufmann the "best overture for existentialism ever written."