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The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Presents a biography the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky along with critical views of his work.
Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky. beginning, once more pressing Razumihin's hands, but Raskolnikov interrupted her again. “I can't have it! I can't have it!” he repeated irritably, “don't worry me! Enough, go away . . . I can't stand it!” “Come, mamma, come ...
The Adolescent

The Adolescent

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.
1877-1881:

1877-1881:

Fyodor M. Dostoevsky

The Diary is Dostoevsky's attempt to create a new genre maximally open to present experience and unforeseen historical change--to capitalize on the excitement of an author's creative process, which would itself become material for art, and ...
A Writer's Diary

A Writer's Diary

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The essential entries from Dostoevsky's complete Diary, called his boldest experiment in literary form, are now available in this abridged edition; it is a uniquely encyclopedic forum of fictional and nonfictional genres.
Writer's Diary Volume 1: 1873-1876

Writer's Diary Volume 1: 1873-1876

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Winner of the AATSEEL Outstanding Translation Award This is the first paperback edition of the complete collection of writings that has been called Dostoevsky's boldest experiment with literary form; it is a uniquely encyclopedic forum of ...
The Idiot

The Idiot

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

The Idiot (1868), written under the appalling personal circumstances Dostoevsky endured while travelling in Europe, not only reveals the author's acute artistic sense and penetrating psychological insight, but also affords his most powerful ...
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Peter J. Leithart

In his twenties, Fydor Dostoevsky, son of a Moscow doctor, graduate of a military academy, and rising star of Russian literature, found himself standing in front of a firing squad, accused of subversive activities against the Russian Tsar.
The Idiot (The Unabridged Eva Martin Translation)

The Idiot (The Unabridged Eva Martin Translation)

Fyodor Dostoevsky

This is the version based on the unabridged Eva Martin translation. The Idiot is a novel written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published serially in The Russian Messenger between 1868 and 1869.
Notes from the Underground, and The Gambler

Notes from the Underground, and The Gambler

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Specially commissioned for the World's Classics, this new translation includes a full editorial apparatus.
Pages from the Journal of an Author, Fyodor Dostoevsky

Pages from the Journal of an Author, Fyodor Dostoevsky

John M. Murry

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Brothers Karamazov

Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

A terrifying answer to man's eternal questions, this monumental work remains the crowning achievement of perhaps the finest novelist of all time. From the Paperback edition.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Robert Bird

As Bird illuminates how these grueling experiences contributed to the writing of novels like Notes from the Underground, he also describes how they instilled in the author a craving for social justice and quest for form that spurred his ...
Russia and Eastern Europe: A Bibliographic Guide to ...

Russia and Eastern Europe: A Bibliographic Guide to ...

Helen F. Sullivan

Knapp, Liza. The Annihilation of Inertia: Dostoevsky and Metaphysics, xi, 315p. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University ... Knapp develops the idea of inertia as it was understood by Dostoevsky's contemporaries and by Dostoevsky himself.
The Gift

The Gift

Vladimir Nabokov

This gorgeous tapestry of literature and butterflies tells the story of Fyodor's pursuits as a writer. Its heroine is not Fyodor's elusive and beloved Zina, however, but Russian prose and poetry themselves.
Dostoevsky: His Life and Work

Dostoevsky: His Life and Work

Konstantin Mochulsky

Dostoevsky's writings are criticized individually and in relation to one another against the background of his life and thought
Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859

Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859

Joseph Frank

Describes Dostoevsky's experiences in a prison camp in Siberia, examines the influence of Russian intellectual life on him, and discusses his early writings
The Brothers Karamazov

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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, ...
Dostoevsky's The Idiot: A Critical Companion

Dostoevsky's The Idiot: A Critical Companion

Liza Knapp

This text is designed to guide readers through Dostoevsky's The Idiot, generally considered to be one of his most mysterious and confusing works.
Dostoevsky: The Author As Psychoanalyst

Dostoevsky: The Author As Psychoanalyst

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Using this as a starting point, Breger goes on to offer a detailed analysis of the novel, situating it at the pivotal point in Dostoevsky's life between the death of his first wife and his second marriage.
Holy Foolishness: Dostoevsky's Novels & the Poetics of ...

Holy Foolishness: Dostoevsky's Novels & the Poetics of ...

Harriet Murav

This book examines the ways in which Dostoevsky's adoption and reinvention of the medieval Russian holy fool - in Russian Orthodoxy, a person who feigned madness or folly as an ascetic feat of self-humiliation - serves as a locus for a ...
Russia In The Age Of Alexander II, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky

Russia In The Age Of Alexander II, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky

Walter Moss

'Russia in the Age of Alexander II, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky' is both history and story, incorporating in its analysis of Alexander II's turbulent reign the lives and ideas of the period's great writers, thinkers and revolutionaries who made ...
Russia in the Age of Alexander II, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky

Russia in the Age of Alexander II, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky

Walter G. Moss

'Russia in the Age of Alexander II, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky' is both history and story, incorporating in its analysis of Alexander II's turbulent reign the lives and ideas of the period's great writers, thinkers and revolutionaries who made ...
The Idiot

The Idiot

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

His serene selflessness is contrasted with the worldly qualities of every other character in the novel.

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