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Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment is the penetrating study of a man who commits murder, convinced of the murder's justice, but suffering mentally nonetheless. It was first published in 1866 in twelve monthly installments of The Russian Messenger, a prestigous publication and an outlet for Tolstoy and Turgenev.

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Introduction by Malcolm Jones; Translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

The Idiot

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s masterful translation of The Idiot is destined to stand with their versions of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov , and Demons as the definitive Dostoevsky in English. After his great portrayal of a guilty man in Crime and Punishment , Dostoevsky set out in The Idiot to portray a man of pure innocence. The twenty-six-year-old Prince Myshkin,... (more)

Notes from Underground and The Gambler (Oxford World's Classics)

Notes from Underground and The Gambler (Oxford World's Classics)

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

This collection showcases Dostoyevsky's evolving outlook on man's fate. The compelling works presented here were written at distinct periods in the author's life, at decisive moments in his groping for a political philosophy and a religious answer. Includes: Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dreams of a Ridiculous Man, and selections from The House of the Dead.

Demons

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horried Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a "novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What emerged was a prophetic and ferociously funny masterpiece of ideology and murder in pre-revolutionary Russia.

Notes From the Underground

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A predecessor to such monumental works such as Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, Notes From Underground represents a turning point in Dostoyevsky's writing towards the more political side. In this work we follow the unnamed narrator of the story, who disillusioned by the oppression and corruption of the society in which he lives withdraws from that society into the underground. A dark and... (more)

The Adolescent (Norton Paperback)

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The narrator and protagonist of Dostoevsky’s novel The Adolescent (first published in English as A Raw Youth ) is Arkady Dolgoruky, a na•ve 19-year-old boy bursting with ambition and opinions. The illegitimate son of a dissipated landowner, he is torn between his desire to expose his father’s wrongdoing and the desire to win his love. He travels to St. Petersburg to confront the father he barely knows,... (more)

The House of the Dead and Poor Folk (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics)

The House of the Dead and Poor Folk (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics)

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The House of the Dead and Poor Folk , by Fyodor Dostoevsky , is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics : New introductions commissioned from today's top... (more)

Poor People

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

As both a masterpiece of Russian populist writing and a parody of the entire genre, Poor People is an early example of Dostoevsky’s genius. Written as a series of letters, Poor People tells the tragic tale of a petty clerk and his impossible love for a young girl. Longing to help her and her family, he sells everything he can, but his kindness leads him only into more desperate poverty, and ultimately... (more)

The Devils

or, The Possessed

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

First published in 1871-2, this third of Dostoevsky's five major novels is at once a powerful political tract and a profound study of atheism, depicting the disarray which follows the appearance of a band of modish radicals in a small provincial town. The novel is full of buffoonery and grotesque comedy, and the plot is loosely based on the details of a notorious case of political murder.

Netochka Nezvanova,

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Netochka Nezvanova - A Nameless Nobody" - tells the story of a childhood dominated by her stepfather, Efimov, a failed musician who believes he is a neglected genius. The young girl is strangely drawn to this drunken ruin of a man, who exploits her and drives the family to poverty. But when she is rescued by an aristocratic family, the abuse against Netochka's delicate psyche continues in a more subtle way,... (more)

The Master of Petersburg: A Novel

by J. M. Coetzee

The great Russian novelist Dostoevsky, obsessed with discovering whether his stepson's sudden death was murder or suicide, finds himself drawn into the violent revolutionary subculture of 1869 Russia, in a work of fiction that is both mystery and psychological portrait. Reprint.

Memoirs from The house of the dead (The World's classics, 597)

Memoirs from The house of the dead (The World's classics, 597)

by Jessie Senior Coulson, Fyodor Dostoevsky

In this almost documentary account of his own experiences of penal servitude in Serbia, Dostoevsky describes the physical and mental suffering of the convicts, the squalor and the degradation, in relentless detail. The inticate procedure whereby the men strip for the bath without removing their ten-pound leg-fetters is an extraordinary tour de force, compared by Turgenev to passages from Dante's Inferno. Terror... (more)

The Devils (The Possessed)Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Dostoevsky)

The Devils (The Possessed)

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Dostoevsky)

The gambler, Bobok [and] A nasty story

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The stories in this volume demonstrate Dostoyevsky's genius for fusing caricature, irony and the grotesque to create a powerful dark humour. "The Gambler" is a breathtaking portrayal of an intense and futile obsession. Based on Dostoyevsky's own experience of financial desperation and the compulsive desire to win money, it focuses on the characters that take their places at the gaming tables of 'Roulettenburg':... (more)

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A short story from the Classic Shorts Collection: A Disgraceful Affair by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Crimen y castigo/ Crime and Punishment (Literatura)

Crimen y castigo/ Crime and Punishment (Literatura)

by Fiodor Dostoievski

The well-known works of literature in this series constitute the most valuable treasures of universal literature. The affordably priced, newly updated books will enhance any library. Las reconocidas obras de literatura de esta serie constituyen el más valioso tesoro de la literatura universal. Estos libros de cubierta imitación cuero, a un precio muy conveniente, halagan cualquier biblioteca.

Great Russian Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)

Great Russian Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)

by Leonid Andreyev, Anton Chekhov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Vsevolod M. Garshin, Nikolai Gogol, Maxim Gorky, Alexander Kuprin, Nikolai Leskov, Alexander Pushkin

Twelve powerful works of fiction for students of Russian literature and devotees of great writing. Contents: Pushkin's "The Queen of Spades," Gogol's "The Overcoat," Turgenev's "The District Doctor," Dostoyevsky's "White Nights," Tolstoy's "How Much Land Does a Man Need?," plus "The Clothes Mender" by Leskov, "The Signal" by Garshin, "The Lady with the Toy Dog" by Chekhov, "The White Mother" by Sologub,... (more)

A Gentle Creatures and other stories

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

In these stories, Dostoevsky explores both the figure of the dreamer divorced from reality, and also his own ambiguous attitude toward utopianism, themes central to his great novels. In White Nights, the apparent idyll of the dreamer's romantic fantasies disguises profound loneliness and estrangement from "living life." A Gentle Creature and The Dream of a Ridiculous Man show how withdrawal from reality can end... (more)

The grand inquisitor (The Merrill literary casebook series)

The grand inquisitor (The Merrill literary casebook series)

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Grand Inquisitor is a section from The Brothers Karamazov, which is a literary work by Russian author/philosopher Fyodor Dostoevsky. The central character in this work is a Grand Inquisitor who arrests Jesus. A Grand Inquisitor, or Inquisitor Generalis in German is the individual who leads an Inquisition, just like Spanish Dominican Tomás de Torquemada who was the official in charge of the Spanish Inquisition. (more)

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