What is the author's style in Great Short Works by Fyodor Dostoevsky?

The author is known to be capable of great complexity. The translator has done what can be done. It should be assumed that something has been lost in the translation, but that the vast majority of the meaning and flow of the stories have been preserved. An English form of the author's original style has been created, which allows for the closest thing to a match that is possible given the circumstances.