The Insulted and Injured Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky The Insulted and Injured, originally published in 1861, is Fyodor Dostoevsky?s first major work of fiction after his Siberian exile and the first of the long novels for which he is famous. Set in nineteenth-century Petersburg, the novel depicts a group of people suffering from the cruel and selfish machinations of a dark and powerful prince. Can... more » pure love overcome such evil?« less