Humiliated and Insulted

Oscar Wilde Claimed That "Humiliated and Insulted" is Not 'At All Inferior to That Other Great Masterpiece'; Friedrich Nietzsche is Said to Have Wept Over It. Its Construction is That of an Intricate Detective Novel Interwoven With Eternally Topical Themes. There is a New Take on Jealousy, Radically Different From Shakespeare's; and the Reader is Plunged Into a World of Moral Degradation, Childhood Trauma and Above All of Unrequited Love and Irreconcilable Relationships.At the Centre of the Story is a Young Struggling Author, a Traumatised Orphaned Teenager, and a Depraved Aristocrat, Who Not Only Foreshadows the Great Figures of Evil in Dostoevsky's Later Fiction but is a Powerful and Original Presence in His Own Right. This New Translation Catches the Verve and Tumult of the Original, Which Itself - in Concept and Execution - Affords a Refreshingly Unfamiliar Glimpse of the Author. in Structure It is More Ordered, in Plot and Characterisation, More Succinct and Balanced Than Most Of