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An Unpleasant Predicament: A Darkly Comic Tale of Pride, Chaos, and Social Satire (Large Print Deluxe Edition For Easy Reading)

By Fyodor Dostoevsky, Tim Zengerink (Translator)
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By Fyodor Dostoevsky, Tim Zengerink (Translator)
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What if your greatest attempt at dignity revealed your most ridiculous flaws?

In An Unpleasant Predicament, Fyodor Dostoevsky delivers a piercing satire of social vanity, self-deception, and the chaos that unfolds when pride meets absurdity. The story follows Ivan Ilyich Pralinsky, a high-ranking official with noble intentions-at least in his own mind.

Convinced of his own magnanimity, he decides to crash the wedding of a poor subordinate as a gesture of goodwill. But his self-congratulatory...