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Crime and Punishment (penguin classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Crime and punishment is probably Dostoevsky's most read and known novel and one of the most famous literary works of all time. Published in installments in 1866 in the journal «Russkij vestnik» («The Russian Messenger»), it is the story of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, which the author describes in a l ...Show more
Notes from Underground: Popular Penguins by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Category: No Category | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
The apology and confession of a minor mid-19th-century Russian official, Notes from Underground is a half-desperate, half-mocking political critique and a powerful, at times absurdly comical, account of man's breakaway from society and descent 'underground'.
Notes from Underground and the Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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'The best thing is to do nothing! Better conscious inertia! So, long live the underground!'Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of hose own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's groundbreaking Notes from Undergroundtells the story of his tortured life. With bitter irony, he ...Show more
Notes from a Dead House by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (tr. Pevear and Volokhonsky)
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
In 1849, Dostoevsky was sentenced to four years at hard labor in a Siberian prison camp for participating in a socialist discussion group. The novel he wrote after his release, based on notes he smuggled out, not only brought him fame, but also founded the tradition of Russian prison writing." Notes fro ...Show more
Notes from the Underground & Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by David Rampton, Department of English, University of Ottowa. Notes from Underground and Other Storiesis a comprehensive collection of Dostoevsky’s short fiction. Many of these stories, like his great novels, reveal his special sympathy for the solitary and dispossessed, ...Show more
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics
When brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov is murdered, the lives of his sons are changed irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide; Ivan, the intellectual, whose mental tortures drive him to breakdown; the spiritual Alyosha ...Show more
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; David McDuff (Introduction by)
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Dostoyevsky's towering reputation as one of the handful of thinkers who forged the modern sensibility has sometimes obscured the purely novelistic virtues-brilliant characterizations, flair for suspense and melodrama, instinctive theatricality-that made his work so immensely popular in nineteenth-centur ...Show more
The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Category: No Category | Series: Classics Ser.
In January, 1850, Dostoyevsky was sent to a remote Siberian prison camp for his part in a political conspiracy. The four years he spent there, startlingly re-created in "The House of the Dead", were the most agonizing of his life. In this fictionalized account, he recounts his soul-destroying incarcerat ...Show more
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; David McDuff (Translator)
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Translated Texts Ser.
The most autobiographical novel by the author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov – and the namesake of Elif Batuman's debut novel, The Idiot. Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naive epileptic Prince Myshkin – known as the "idiot" – pays a visit to his ...Show more
White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithRegarded as one of world literature's foremost novelists, Fyodor Dostoevsky's short stories are also some of th ...Show more
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