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The Adolescent (Alma Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Category: Classics
Among Dostoevsky's later novels, The Adolescent occupies a very special place: published three years after The Devils and five years before his final masterpiece, The Karamazov Brothers, the novel charts the story of nineteen-year-old Arkady - the illigitimate son of the landowner Versilov and the maid ...Show more
The Best Short Stories of Dostoevsky by Fyodor Dostoevsky; David Magarshack (Translator)
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
After a brief military career, the illustrious Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky quickly turned to writing as a profession with the publication of his first novel, "Poor Folk," in 1846. This novel sparked a literary career that would eventually cement Dostoyevsky's reputation as one of the greatest nove ...Show more
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky; David Magarshack (Translator)
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
A monumental literary masterpiece that delves into the depths of human nature, morality, and spirituality. Set in nineteenth-century Russia, the novel follows the lives of the Karamazov brothers: Ivan, Dmitri, and Alexei. Their tumultuous relationships, personal struggles, and conflicting ideologies int ...Show more
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Category: Classics
The award-winning translation of Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel.
The Brothers Karamazov - A New Translation by Michael R. Katz by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Michael R. Katz (Translator)
Category: Classics
Dostoevsky's final, greatest novel, The Brothers Karamazov, paints a complex and richly detailed portrait of a family tormented by its extraordinarily cruel patriarch, Fyodor Pavlovich, whose callous decisions slowly decimate the lives of his sons--the eponymous brothers Karamazov--and lead to his viole ...Show more
The Brothers Karamazov - A New Translation by Michael R. Katz by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Michael R. Katz (Translator)
Category: Classics
Dostoevsky's final, greatest novel, The Brothers Karamazov, paints a complex and richly detailed portrait of a family tormented by its extraordinarily cruel patriarch, Fyodor Pavlovich, whose callous decisions slowly decimate the lives of his sons--the eponymous brothers Karamazov--and lead to his viole ...Show more
The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Category: Classics
This new, revised edition of the award-winning translation of Dostoevsky's classic novel celebrates the author's two hundredth birthday Winner of the Pen/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize <i>The Brothers Karamazov</i> is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of eroti ...Show more
The Crocodile by Tom Basden (Adapted by); Fyodor Dostoevsky (Original Author)
Category: Reference | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
Ivan is an actor who hasn't achieved the recognition he feels he deserves. But all that is about to change when he is swallowed whole by a crocodile. Based on Dostoyevsky's short story, The Crocodile is a ferociously funny, eye-poppingly theatrical play about art, animals and what happens when you try t ...Show more
The Crocodile and Other Stories (riverrun Editions) - Dostoevsky's Finest Short Stories in the Timeless Translations of Constance Garnett by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Michael Wood (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: riverrun editions
'I have always been ridiculous, and I have known it, perhaps from the hour I was born' A man goes mad because he is happy. A civil servant behaves like a monster at a wedding-party. A man is swallowed by a crocodile, but not eaten nor seriously damaged. Dostoevsky's stories inhabit similarly volcanic ...Show more
The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Hugh Aplin (Translated by)
Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Inspired by Dostoevsky's own gambling addiction and written under pressure in order to pay off his creditors and retain his rights to his literary legacy, The Gambler is set in the casino of the fictional German spa town of Roulettenburg and follows the misfortunes of the young tutor Alexei Ivanovich. A ...Show more
The Gambler - Bobok - Nasty Story by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Jessie Coulson (Introduction by, Translator)
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
The stories in this volume demonstrate Dostoyevsky's genius for fusing caricature, irony and the grotesque to create a powerful dark humour. The Gambler is a breathtaking portrayal of an intense and futile obsession. Based on Dostoyevsky's own experience of financial desperation and the compulsive desir ...Show more
The House of the Dead & The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Translated by Constance Garnett with an introduction by Anthony Briggs. Dostoevsky's fascination for mental breakdown and violence (20 murders in his four main novels) was based on his own life, and these two unmistakably autobiographical works bear this out. The House of the Dead is fiction, but based ...Show more