The Double, Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Double, Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The Double

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Narrator: Geoffrey Giuliano, The Rebellion

Unabridged: 6 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/26/2026

Categories: Fiction, Classic


Synopsis

Double, written by Fyodor Dostoevsky and narrated by Geoffrey Giuliano & The Rebellion, is a haunting psychological masterpiece that explores the terrifying boundaries between identity, madness, paranoia, and the fragile nature of human consciousness.

Set in the shadowy streets of nineteenth-century St. Petersburg, this extraordinary novella follows Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, a lonely, insecure government clerk whose carefully ordered existence begins to collapse when he encounters a mysterious stranger who looks exactly like himself.

Even more disturbing, this uncanny double possesses everything Golyadkin lacks: confidence, charm, ambition, and the effortless ability to manipulate those around him. As the sinister newcomer gradually infiltrates his professional and personal life, Golyadkin becomes trapped in an increasingly nightmarish struggle against a man who appears determined to steal his identity and destroy his existence.

Through a brilliant combination of dark humor, psychological suspense, and disturbing surrealism, Dostoevsky examines the hidden conflicts of the human personality, the crushing pressures of social conformity, and the terrifying possibility that our greatest enemy may exist within ourselves.

First published in 1846, The Double stands among Dostoevsky’s earliest and most daring literary achievements, anticipating the profound psychological investigations that would later define his celebrated masterpieces Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov.

About Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881), born in Moscow, lived much of his childhood distanced from his frail mother and officious father. During these formative years, he formed a close bond with his elder brother Mikhail. When they were teenagers, however, Fyodor and Mikhail were enrolled in separate boarding schools, Fyodor matriculating at an engineering school in St. Petersburg. Even as he was studying the trade of government, Dostoevsky was honing his skills as a writer, inking drafts of what would become his first novel-Poor Folk. In 1846, it was published to warm critical response. Something of a literary figure at the age of twenty-five, Dostoevsky began attending the discussion group that would result in his imprisonment. His sentence was commuted to four years in prison and four years of army service. His prison experiences, as well as his life after prison among the urban poor of Russia, provided a vivid backdrop for much of his later work. Released from his imprisonment and service by 1858, he began a fourteen-year period of furious writing, in which he published many significant texts, including The House of the Dead, Notes from the Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and Devils. During this period, Dostoevsky's life was in upheaval, as he lost both his first wife and his brother. On February 15, 1867, he married his stenographer Anna Grigorevna Snitkina, who managed his affairs until his death. Two months before he died, Dostoevsky completed the epilogue to The Brothers Karamazov, which was published in serial form in the Russian Messenger.


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