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The Idiot (Annotated with Critical Essay and Biography):

The Idiot (Annotated with Critical Essay and Biography):

Fyodor Doystoyevsky

At that time he hadbeenpretty nearly an idiot still;he could not speakproperly, and haddifficulty in understanding when othersspoke to him. He climbed the mountainside, one sunny morning, and wandered long and aimlessly with a certain ...
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.
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 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, ...
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.
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.
The Idiot

The Idiot

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

His serene selflessness is contrasted with the worldly qualities of every other character in the novel.
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.
Акунин Б Ф. М. т. 2

Акунин Б Ф. М. т. 2

Борис Акунин

A search for a vanished manuscript of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and punishment.
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 ...
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 ...
The Idiot

The Idiot

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

What musther feelings have been when she heard that Prince Muishkin, thelastof his and herline, had arrivedin beggar's guise, a wretched idiot, a recipient of charity—all of which details the general gave out for greater effect! He was anxious ...
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.
Historical Dictionary of Russian Music

Historical Dictionary of Russian Music

Daniel Jaffé

BASHMET, YURI ABRAMOVICH (1953– ). Russian viola player and conductor. Born on 24 January 1953 in Rostov-on-Don, he grew up in Ukraine and studied in the Moscow Conservatory, first with Vadim Borisovsky and then with Fyodor ...

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