Notes from Underground
Generally referred to by reviewers as the Underground Man, the novella offers itself as a passage from the memoirs of a retired government worker residing in St. Petersburg, a bitter, solitary, anonymous narrator. Though the initial section of the novella has the shape of a monologue, the narrator's approach to addressing his reader is somewhat dialogized. Mikhail Bakhtin said in the Underground Man's confession, 'There is not a single monologically strong, undissociated word.' Every word the Underground Man speaks reflects the words of someone with whom he is in an intense mental quarrel. The Underground Man attacks modern Russian philosophy, specifically Nikolay Chernyshevsky's What Is to Be Done? In a broader sense, the book challenges and rebels against determinism, a theory that reduces everything, including human personality and will, to the laws of nature, science, and mathematics. The Underground Man's narration is rife with ideological allusions and complex conversations
Crime and Punishment
Raskolnikov, an impoverished student, determines to kill a pawnbroker whom he detests. He does, and much plot ensues. The first book that Dostoevsky wrote after his exile in Siberia, and widely considered one of the greatest novels of all time, in...
Eternal Husband and Other Stories
From Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of 'War and Peace, Doctor Zhivago, ' and 'Anna Karenina, ' which was an Oprah Book Club pick and million-copy bestseller, 'The Eternal Husband and Other Stories' brings together five of Dostoevsky's short masterpieces. Filled with many of the themes and concerns central to his great novels, these short works display the full range of Dostoevsky's genius. The centerpiece of this collection, the short novel 'The Eternal Husband, 'describes the almost surreal meeting of a cuckolded widower and his dead wife's lover. Dostoevsky's dark brilliance and satiric vision infuse the other four tales with all-too-human characters. 'The Eternal Husband and Other Stories' is sterling Dostoevsky--a collection of emotional power and uncompromising insight into the human condition.
Crime and Punishment (Dual-Language Book)
This is a dual-language book with the Russian text on the left side, and the English text on the right side of each spread. The texts are precisely synchronized. A great book for learning both languages while reading a Russian classic masterpiece.
Notes from a Dead House
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 from a Dead House'(sometimes translated as'The House of the Dead') depicts brutal punishments, feuds, betrayals, and the psychological effects of confinement, but it also reveals the moments of comedy and acts of kindness that Dostoevsky witnessed among his fellow prisoners. To get past government censors, Dostoevsky made his narrator a common-law criminal rather than a political prisoner, but the perspective is unmistakably his own. His incarceration was a transformative experience that nourished all his later works, particularly'Crime and Punishment.' Dostoevsky s narrator discovers that even among the most debased criminals there are strong and beautiful souls. His story is, finally, a
Eternal Husband and Other Stories
The Eternal Husband and Other Stories
The Idiot
'My intention is to portray a truly beautiful soul.' --Dostoevsky Despite the harsh circumstances besetting his own life--abject poverty, incessant gambling, the death of his youngest child--Dostoevsky produced a second masterpiece, The Idiot, after completing Crime and Punishment. In it, a saintly man, Prince Myshkin, is thrust into the heart of a society more concerned with wealth, power, and sexual conquest than with the ideals of Christianity. Myshkin soon finds himself at the center of a violent love triangle in which a notorious woman and a beautiful young girl become rivals for his affections. Extortion, scandal, and murder follow, testing Myshkin's moral feelings, as Dostoevsky searches through the wreckage left by human misery to find 'man in man.' The Idiot is a quintessentially Russian novel, one that penetrates the complex psyche of the Russian people. 'They call me a psychologist,' wrote Dostoevsky. 'That is not true. I'm only a realist in the higher sense; that is, I
Double and The Gambler
The Double and The Gambler
Idiot
In an attempt to woo two wholesome women--Natasya and Aglaia--the lovesick Prince Myshkin's good deeds are overshadowed by Ganya, the dishonest man of interest to the women, in this volume that includes an introduction and notes.
Gambler
The Gambler
Adolescent
The Adolescent
Crime And Punishment
A troubled young man commits the perfect crime - the murder of a vile pawnbroker whom no one will miss. Raskolnikov is desperate for money, but convinces himself that his motive for the murder is to benefit mankind. So begins one of the greatest novels ever written, a journey into the criminal mind, a police thriller, and a philosophical meditation on morality and redemption.
Crime and Punishment
One of Time 's 100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books of All Time * Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read A desperate young man plans the perfect crime-the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an...
