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  • NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND
    FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
    Notes from the Underground is a study of a single character, and a revelation of Dostoyevsky's own deepest beliefs. In this work we follow the unnamed narrator of the story, who, disillusioned by the oppression and corruption of the society in which he lives withdraws from that society into the underground. On the surface this is a story of one man's rant against a corrupt, o...

    $19.00

  • THE GRAND INQUISITOR
    FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
    The Grand Inquisitor is a poem (a story within a story) inside Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880). It is recited by Ivan Karamazov, who questions the possibility of a personal and benevolent God, to his brother Alexei (Alyosha), a novice monk. "The Grand Inquisitor" is an important part of the novel and one of the best-known passages in modern literatu...

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  • STAVROGIN'S CONFESSION AND THE PLAN OF THE LIFE OF A GREAT SINNER
    FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
    Stavrogin is a character in Possesed(Devils) by Dostoevsky, 'Sravrogin's confession' is chapter that was censored out of that book. 'Life of a great sinner' is an unwritten novel. The two are translated by one and only Virginia Woolf. (Goodreads) ...

    $39.70

  • THE DREAM OF THE RIDICULOUS MAN
    FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
    The first-rate collection includes "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man," "Bobok," "The Christmas Tree and the Wedding," and five other short masterpieces. ...

    $85.00

  • THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV
    FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
    The last and greatest work by the nineteenth-century Russian writer and philosopher: " The most magnificent novel ever written" (Sigmund Freud).   "[ The Brothers Karamazov] is a philosophical novel, a family drama, a murder mystery, and a love story. It's also an immortal masterpiece.   "The ferocious, idiosyncratic vitality of Dostoyevsky's fiction captures readers again and ...

    $85.00

  • THE IDIOT
    FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY / EVA MARTIN
    A novel of innocence and iniquity, love and murder, by the nineteenth-century Russian author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov.   After several years in a Swiss sanatorium, twenty-six-year-old Prince Myshkin returns to Russian society to collect his rightful inheritance. But he soon crosses paths with the dark Rogozhin, a rich merchant's son whose desire for Na...

    $85.00

  • CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
    FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
    Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, a former student, lives in a tiny garret on the top floor of a run-down apartment building in St. Petersburg. He is sickly, dressed in rags, short on money, and talks to himself, but he is also handsome, proud, and intelligent. He is contemplating committing an awful crime, but the nature of the crime is not yet clear. He goes to the apartment of ...

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  • THE IDIOT
    FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
    The 26-year-old Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin returns to Russia after spending several years at a Swiss sanatorium. Scorned by the society of St Petersburg for his trusting nature and naiveté, he finds himself at the center of a struggle between a beautiful kept woman and a virtuous and pretty young girl, both of whom win his affection. Unfortunately, Myshkin's very goodness ...

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  • CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
    FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
    The acclaimed Russian novelist's epic morality tale of a young man's horrifying crime and his struggle for redemption. Rodion Raskolnikov, a young man living in St. Petersburg, devises a gruesome experiment in morality. Theorizing that men of exceptional intelligence have license to kill others, he decides to test his theory with the murder of an elderly pawnbroker. Though no e...

    $85.00

  • A VERY RUSSIAN CHRISTMAS
    MIKHAIL ZOSHCHENKO / ANTON CHEKHOV / FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY / LEV TOLSTOY / VLADIMIR KOROLENKO / KLAUDIA LUKA
    A collection of short Christmas stories by some of Russia's greatest nineteenth and twentieth century authors—several appearing in English for the first time.   Running the gamut from sweet and reverent to twisted and uproarious, this collection offers a holiday feast of Russian fiction. Dostoevsky brings stories of poverty and tragedy; Tolstoy inspires with his fable-like tale...

    $251.00

  • RUSSIAN SHORT STORIES
    FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky worked as a journalist, publishing and editing several magazines of his own. He began to travel around western Europe and developed a gambling addiction, which led to financial hardship. For a time, he had to beg for money, but he eventually became one of the most widely read and highly regarded Russian writers. His books have been translated into more than 1...

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  • THE INSULTED AND THE INJURED
    FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
    Natasha leaves her parents' home and runs away with Alyosha (prince Alexey) – the son of Prince Valkovsky who abuses her father. As a result of his pain, her father, Nikolai, curses her. The only friend that remains by Natasha's side is Ivan, her childhood friend, who is deeply in love with her. Prince Valkovsky tries to destroy Alyosha's plans to marry Natasha, and wants to ma...

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  • A GENTLE SPIRIT
    FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
    "A Gentle Spirit" is a short story by Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky, focusing on the deep distress of man who has just lost the love of his life, this is a heart-wrenching tale. In a flashback he remembers everything from the first meeting to the farewell. The reader follows the gripping narrative. ...

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  • THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV
    FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
    "The Brothers Karamazov" is a passionate philosophical novel set in 19th century Russia, that enters deeply into the ethical debates of God, free will, and morality. It is a spiritual drama of moral struggles concerning faith, doubt, and reason, set against a modernising Russia. Since its publication, it has been acclaimed as one of the supreme achievements in literature. ...

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  • THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD
    FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
    "The House of the Dead" is a semi-autobiographical novel published in 1861 by Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky, which portrays the life of convicts in a Siberian prison camp. The book is a loosely-knit collection of facts and events organised by "theme" rather than as a continuous story. Dostoyevsky himself spent four years in exile in such a camp following his conviction for ...

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  • POOR FOLK
    FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
    "Poor Folk" is the first novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, written over the span of nine months between 1844 and 1845. Dostoyevsky was in financial difficulty because of his extravagant living and his developing gambling addiction. Varvara Dobroselova and Makar Devushkin are second cousins twice-removed and live across from each other on the same street in terrible apartments. Devus...

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  • UNCLE'S DREAM
    FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
    The story "Uncle's Dream" was written by Dostoyevsky after a five-year exile in Siberia and covers the tale of a provincial family desperate to better itself through a marriage of their daughter to a senile prince. The old man is hoodwinked and almost forced into a wedding that is expected to last for a short period before he dies and leaves his fortune to the young girl. There...

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  • THE POSSESSED
    FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
    The novel takes place in a provincial Russian setting, primarily on the estates of Stepan Trofimovich Verkhovensky and Varvara Stavrogina. Stepan Trofimovich's son, Pyotr Verkhovensky, is an aspiring revolutionary conspirator who attempts to organise a knot of revolutionaries in the area. He considers Varvara Stavrogina's son, Nikolai, central to his plot because he thinks Niko...

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  • THE PERMANENT HUSBAND
    FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
    "The Permanent Husband" is a novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky, first published in 1870. The plot revolves around the complicated relationship between Velchaninov and Trusotsky, the husband of his deceased former lover. ...

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  • THE GAMBLER
    FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
    "The Gambler" is a short novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky about a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian general. The novella reflects Dostoyevsky's own addiction to roulette, which was in more ways than one the inspiration for the book: Dostoyevsky completed the novella under a strict deadline to pay off gambling debts. ...

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  • NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND
    FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
    "Notes from the Underground" is considered by many to be the first existentialist novel. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred to by critics as the Underground Man) who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg. ...

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