The title character of one story written by this author cavorts with a member of her husband's former regiment, pawns her belongings to earn money for a newspaper ad, and jumps out of a window at the story's end.
The title character of one story written by this author cavorts with a member of her husband's former regiment, pawns her belongings to earn money for a newspaper ad, and jumps out of a window at the story's end. Another of his novels is about the mental disintegration of a government clerk who is not invited to Klara's birthday party but imagines her asking him to elope anyway. Besides writing "A Gentle Creature," this author wrote about a suicidal man who dreams he is on another planet after shooting himself in the heart. He wrote about a self-professed "dreamer" who roams (*) St. Petersburg, falls in love with Nastenka, and suffers heartbreak at the end of four "White Nights." He described a man who goes to wish Zverkov off at a brothel where he meets Liza. For 10 points, identify this Russian author whose shorter novels include The Double and  Notes from the Underground.  
The title character of one story written by this author cavorts with a member of her husband's former regiment, pawns her belongings to earn money for a newspaper ad, and jumps out of a window at the story's end.
Fyodor Mikhaylovich {Dostoyevsky}