The novel "the insulted and injured" (1861) was created by Dostoyevsky in an era of unprecedented upsurge of Russian public life - in an era when the publication of new literary works was seen as a socially significant event. So it was accepted and the emergence of the novel "Humiliated and offended". After the release of N. A. Dobrolyubov took Dostoevsky a place of honor in the "humanistic" direction of Russian literature. Much in this novel, readers seemed unusual: before them was set a new ethical and social problem of selfishness. Prince Valkovsky, unfolding on the pages of the novel his cynical "philosophy of life" became the first work of the writer as a hero-"ideologue", the predecessor of the Man from underground, Raskolnikov, Svidrigailov, and other heroes of Dostoevsky, 1860-1870-ies.

Heartfelt "the lady with the dog" and the sad "the Grasshopper". Scathing "the Man in a case" and the mischievous "Boys." Merciless "Ward number six" and the touching "Kashtanka". This collection includes the stories and novels of different years, serious and funny, humorous and tragic, both adults and children. However, no matter what he wrote the great Chekhov – the constant was always his striking sense of the word and a deep understanding of human nature.

"Fathers and sons" is one of the strongest novels of Ivan Turgenev, the problem which is relevant in the XIX century, has not lost its brightness and now. The eternal conflict between youth, demanding change, and conservatism of Mature age... the Eternal conflict of illusion and reality, intellect and emotion... And finally, an unusual, sharp eye on the restless, enigmatic soul of the Russian intelligentsia — in its extreme, nihilistic form of spiritual life...