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  Crime and Punishment

  by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  Crime and Punishment is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. This was first published in the Russian literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments during 1866. It was later published in a single volume. This is the second of Dostoevsky's full-length novels following his return from five years of exile in Siberia, where he was serving his sentence in Katorga camps, the Tsarist... (more)
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  The Brothers Karamazov

  by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  The Brothers Karamazov (Russian: Братья Карамазовы Brat'ya Karamazovy, pronounced <ˈbratʲjə karəˈmazəvɨ>) is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Dostoyevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger and completed in November 1880. Dostoyevsky intended it to be the first part in an epic story titled The Life of a Great... (more)
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  The Idiot

  by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  The Idiot (Russian: Идиот, Idiot) is a novel written by 19th century Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published serially in Russkiy Vestnik between 1868 and 1869. The Idiot is ranked beside some of Dostoevsky's other works as one of the most brilliant literary achievements of the Russian "Golden Age" of Literature. It was not published in English until the 20th century
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  Notes From Underground

  by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  Notes from Underground (Russian: Записки из подполья, Zapiski iz podpol'ya), also translated in English as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld, though Notes from Underground is the most literal translation (1864) is a short novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Although Søren Kierkegaard is considered the father of existentialism, he mostly wrote non-fictional philosophical and theological treatises,... (more)
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  Demons

  Or, The Devils; or The Possessed

  by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  The Possessed (Russian: Бесы, tr. Besy) is an 1872 novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Though titled The Possessed in the initial English translation, Dostoevsky scholars and later translations favour the titles The Devils or Demons.An extremely political book, Demons is a testimonial of life in Imperial Russia in the late 19th century.As the revolutionary democrats begin to rise in Russia, different... (more)
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  The Double

  by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  The Double charts the psychological collapse of Yakov Golyadkin, an awkward, angst-ridden office-worker in St Petersburg. Golyadkin suddenly becomes aware that his office contains a Double of himself, a creature who floats effortlessly through life, well respected and surrounded by admiring friends. Disturbingly, no one but Golyadkin seems aware of this startling state of affairs, further straining the troubled... (more)
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  Crime and Punishment (A Norton Critical Edition)

  by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  Jessie Coulson’s translation provides the text for the Third Edition of this acclaimed Norton Critical Edition. New footnotes have been added, based on discoveries by the leading Soviet Dostoevsky scholar, Sergei Belov. "Backgrounds and Sources", highly praised in the Second Edition, remains unaltered. Included are a detailed map of nineteenth-century St. Petersburg, selections from Dostoevsky’s notebooks and... (more)
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  The Adolescent

  or Raw Youth or An Accidental Family

  by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  The Raw Youth, also published as The Adolescent or An Accidental Family, (Russian: Подросток), is a novel by Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky, first published in 1875. Ronald Hingley, author of Russians and Society and a specialist in Dostoevsky's works, named this novel a bad one, whereas Richard Pevear (in the introduction to his and Larissa Volokhonsky's 2003 translation of the novel), vehemently defended its... (more)
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  The Double and The Gambler

  by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  The award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have given us the definitive version of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s strikingly original short novels, The Double and The Gambler. The Double is a surprisingly modern hallucinatory nightmare–foreshadowing Kafka and Sartre–in which a minor official named Goliadkin becomes aware of a mysterious doppelganger, a man who has his name and his face and... (more)
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  Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky

  by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  This collection, unique to the Modern Library, gathers seven of Dostoevsky's key works and shows him to be equally adept at the short story as with the novel. Exploring many of the same themes as in his longer works, these small masterpieces move from the tender and romantic White Nights , an archetypal nineteenth-century morality tale of pathos and loss, to the famous Notes from the Underground , a story of... (more)
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  The House of the Dead

  by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  The House of the Dead (Russian: Записки из Мёртвого дома) is a novel published in 1862 by Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky, which portrays the life of convicts in a Siberian prison camp. The novel has also been published under the titles Memoirs from the House of The Dead and Notes from the Dead House.The book is a loosely-knit collection of facts and events connected to life in a Siberian prison,... (more)
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  Notes from Underground, the Double and Other Stories

  by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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  The Metamorphosis

  by Franz Kafka

  The Metamorphosis is a short story written by author Franz Kafka. Originally published in 1915, The Metamorphosis is considered to be the most famous of Kafka's works. It is the story of a traveling salesman, named Gregor Samsa, who transforms into a monstrous vermin while trying to find himself. The Metamorphosis is highly recommended for those who enjoy the writings of Franz Kafka, and for those who are... (more)
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  Cuentos (Spanish Edition)

  by Fiodor M. Dostoievski

  Los Cuentos de Fiodor M. Dostoievski (Moscu, 1821-San Petersburgo, 1881) intentan abarcar todo el periodo de su actividad como escritor, desde sus comienzos literarios en 1845 hasta 1877, ano en que comienza a escribir Los hermanos Karamazov. En estos cuentos, no por breves menos geniales que sus novelas, aparecen temas recurrentes en toda su obra: los estafadores estafados en la Novela en nueve cartas, el delirio... (more)
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  Dostoevsky : The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865

  by Joseph Frank

  ". . . a narrative of such compelling precision, thoroughness and insight as to give the reader a sense not just of acquaintanceship, but of complete identification with Dostoevsky, of looking through his eyes and understanding with his mind."--Helen Muchnic, Boston Globe "This is unquestionably the best account we have of Dostoevsky in his time."--Donald Fanger, The New Republic ". . . will rightly be... (more)
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  Dostoevsky : The Years of Ordeal , 1850-1859

  by Joseph Frank

  <A>nother impressive installment in one of modern scholarship's largest biographical achievements. ( Kirkus Reviews ) In its scale and scholarly care, Frank's study, even at this preliminary stage, has no rival throughout the extensive critical and biographical literature on Dostoevsky. ( George Steiner New Yorker )
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  Crime and Punishment

  by Alain Korkos, David Zane Mairowitz

  “And, in the dark, a thought came to me that no one had ever had before me: I wanted to kill someone, just in order to dare.” This graphic adaptation of Crime and Punishment masterfully illuminates Dostoevsky’s psychological thriller. Acclaimed French artist Alain Korkos vividly brings to life the mental anguish and moral dilemmas that plague Raskolnikov, a poor St. Petersburg student who murders a miserly... (more)
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  Dostoevsky

  A Writer in His Time

  by Joseph Frank

  Joseph Frank's award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognized as the best biography of the writer in any language--and one of the greatest literary biographies of the past half-century. Now Frank's monumental, 2500-page work has been skillfully abridged and condensed in this single, highly readable volume with a new preface by the author. Carefully preserving the original work's acclaimed narrative... (more)
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  The Idiot [Annotated]

  by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  Annotated: in addition to the novel the ebook contains two essays about Fyodor Dostoevsky and "The Idiot" from wiki: Twenty-seven-year-old Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin returns to Russia after spending several years at a Swiss sanatorium. Scorned by the society of St. Petersburgh for his idiocy (epilepsy) and being too generous and innocent, he finds himself at the centre of a struggle between a rich, kept... (more)
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  The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont

  by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.