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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Fiction | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of ...Show more
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
'The old woman was merely a sickness . . .it wasn't a human being I killed, it was a principle!'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 m ...Show more
Devils by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Classics
As ideological ferment grips Russia, a small group of revolutionaries, led by Pyotr Verkhovensky and inspired by Nikolai Stavrogin, plan to spread destruction and anarchy throughout the country. Morally bankrupt, they are prepared to use whatever means necessary to achieve their goal, including murder a ...Show more
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Natasha Randall (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
'I am a sick person. I am a spiteful person. An unattractive person, too . . .'In the depths of a cellar in St. Petersburg, a retired civil servant spews forth a passionate and furious note on the ills of society. The underground man's manifesto reveals his erratic, self-contradictory and even sadistic ...Show more
Notes from Underground: Popular Penguins by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
The apology and confession of a minor mid-19th-century Russian official, Notes from Underground is a half-desperate, half-mocking political critique and a powerful, at times absurdly comical, account of man's breakaway from society and descent 'underground'.
Notes from Underground and the Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Classics
'The best thing is to do nothing! Better conscious inertia! So, long live the underground!'Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of hose own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's groundbreaking Notes from Undergroundtells the story of his tortured life. With bitter irony, he ...Show more
Notes from a Dead House by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (tr. Pevear and Volokhonsky)
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
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 fro ...Show more
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; David McDuff (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics
Dostoyevsky's towering reputation as one of the handful of thinkers who forged the modern sensibility has sometimes obscured the purely novelistic virtues-brilliant characterizations, flair for suspense and melodrama, instinctive theatricality-that made his work so immensely popular in nineteenth-centur ...Show more
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: good
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, whose mental tortures drive him to breakdown; the spiritual Alyosha ...Show more
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics
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. This acclaimed new Englis ...Show more
The Crocodile (Alma Quirky Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Classics | Series: Quirky Classics
The civil servant Ivan Matveich and his wife Yelena Ivanovna are spectators of an exhibition - in a shopping arcade - of a crocodile owned by a German, when Ivan is suddenly swallowed alive by the animal. Unsuccessful in his attempts to be freed from his prison, due to the German's concern for his croco ...Show more
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; David McDuff (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Translated Texts Ser.
The most autobiographical novel by the author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov – and the namesake of Elif Batuman's debut novel, The Idiot. Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naive epileptic Prince Myshkin – known as the "idiot" – pays a visit to his ...Show more