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The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor DostoevskyThis 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
PreviewPresents a biography the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky along with critical views of his work.
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor 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 ...
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky: Adapted by Joseph ...
Joseph CowleyDostoevsky was the son of a doctor.
The Adolescent
Fyodor DostoevskyThe 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:
Fyodor M. DostoevskyThe 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
Fyodor DostoevskyThe 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
Fyodor DostoevskyWinner 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
Fyodor Mikhailovich DostoevskyThe 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
Peter J. LeithartIn 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)
Fyodor DostoevskyThis 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
Fyodor DostoevskySpecially commissioned for the World's Classics, this new translation includes a full editorial apparatus.
Pages from the Journal of an Author, Fyodor Dostoevsky
John M. MurryThis 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
Fyodor DostoevskyA 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
Robert BirdAs 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 ...
Helen F. SullivanKnapp, 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
Vladimir NabokovThis 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
Konstantin MochulskyDostoevsky'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
Joseph FrankDescribes 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
Fyodor DostoyevskyWhen 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
Liza KnappThis 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
PreviewUsing 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 ...
Harriet MuravThis 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
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
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
Fyodor DostoyevskyHis serene selflessness is contrasted with the worldly qualities of every other character in the novel.
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