Memoirs from the House of the Dead (Dostoevsky Fyodor)(Paperback)

Memoirs from the House of the Dead (Dostoevsky Fyodor)(Paperback)

In this almost documentary account of his own experiences of penal servitude in Siberia, Dostoevsky describes the physical and mental suffering of the convicts, the squalor and the degradation, in relentless detail. The inticate procedure whereby the men strip for the bath without removing their

The House of the Dead (Dostoevsky Fyodor)(Paperback)

The House of the Dead recounts the story of Alexander Goryanchikov, a gentleman who is sent to a prison colony in Siberia for killing his wife. Largely ignored at first by his fellow inmates due to his noble blood, he gradually settles in and becomes an avid observer of the new world around him -

Notes from a Dead House (Dostoevsky Fyodor)(Paperback)

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

The House of the Dead (Dostoyevsky Fyodor)(Paperback)

'Here was the house of the living dead, a life like none other upon earth'In January 1850 Dostoyevsky was sent to a remote Siberian prison camp for his part in a political conspiracy. The four years he spent there, startlingly re-created in The House of the Dead, were the most agonizing of his

Notes from the Underground (Dostoevsky Fyodor)(Paperback / softback)

The House of the Dead (Dostoyevsky Fyodor)(Paperback)

Accused of political subversion as a young man, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was sentenced to four years of hard labor at a Siberian prison camp -- a horrifying experience from which he developed this astounding semi-autobiographical memoir of a man condemned to ten years of servitude for murdering his

Lectures on Dostoevsky (Frank Joseph)(Pevná vazba)

From the author of the definitive biography of Fyodor Dostoevsky, never-before-published lectures that provide an accessible introduction to the Russian writer's major works Joseph Frank (1918-2013) was perhaps the most important Dostoevsky biographer, scholar, and critic of his time. His

Notes from the Underground and the Gambler (Dostoevsky Fyodor)(Paperback)

One of the most profound and disturbing works of nineteenth-century literature, Notes from the Underground is a probing and speculative work, often regarded as a forerunner to the Existentialist movement. The Gambler explores the compulsive nature of gambling, one of Dostoevsky's own vices and a

Grand Inquisitor - with related chapters from The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky Fyodor)(Paperback / softback)

The Idiot (Dostoevsky Fyodor)(Paperback)

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 indictment of a Russia struggling to emulate contemporary

Notes from Underground (Dostoevsky Fyodor)(Paperback)

Fyodor Dostoevsky (Bird Robert)(Paperback)

Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, Demons, The Idiot--the complex and prolific Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-81) is responsible for some of our greatest literary works and most fascinating characters. Praised by the likes of Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf, he is also

The Double: New Translation (Dostoevsky Fyodor)(Paperback)

Constantly rebuffed from the social circles he aspires to frequent, the timid clerk Golyadkin is confronted by the sudden appearance of his double, a more brazen, confident and socially successful version of himself, who abuses and victimizes the original. As he is increasingly persecuted,

Notes from Underground (Dostoevsky Fyodor)(Paperback)

Dostoevsky's most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has

The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky Fyodor)(Paperback)

'Contexts' presents a wealth of background and source materials relating to The Brothers Karamazov, to Dostoevsky's own experiences, to current events, and to observations on a changing society. Included are the correspondence of influential literary and social critic Vissarion Grigorievich

The Eternal Husband (Dostoevsky Fyodor)(Paperback)

During a stifling St Petersburg summer, the rich landowner Velchaninov is haunted by the figure of a man he keeps glimpsing in the street. When he receives a surprise visit from him late at night, he realizes he is an old friend, Trusotsky, whose late wife, Natalya, was his secret lover. As the two

Notes From The Underground (Dostoevsky Fyodor)(Pevná vazba)

Dostoevsky was writing at a time when Russia had reason to be optimistic, but the warning signs in his fiction perhaps leave us clues as to why Russia still has social problems today - and why, less than 40 years after Dostoevsky's death, Russia embraced Communism and destroyed the society in which

Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky Fyodor)(Paperback)

'Mesmerizingly good . . . the best, truest translation of Dostoevsky's masterpiece into English. It's a magnificent, almost terrifying achievement of translation, one that makes its predecessors, however worthy, seem safe and polite.' --Steve Donoghue, Open Letters

Uncle's Dream: New Translation (Dostoevsky Fyodor)(Paperback)

The small town of Mordasov is all abuzz at the arrival of Prince K-, a wealthy, ageing landowner, after an absence of several years. Maria Alexandrovna Moskalyova, a local gossip and fearsome schemer, decides that he would be an advantageous match for her daughter Zina. But in her endeavours to

Devils (Dostoevsky Fyodor)(Paperback)

The third of Dostoevsky's five major novels, Devils (1871-2), also known as The Possessed, is at once a powerful political tract and a profound study of atheism, depicting the disarray that follows the appearance of a band of modish radicals in a small provincial town. This new translation includes

The Idiot - Fjodor Michajlovič Dostojevskij

After spending several years in a sanatorium recovering from an illness that caused him to lose his memory and ability to reason, Prince Myshkin arrives in St Petersburg and is at once confronted with the stark realities of life in the Russian capital – from greed, murder and nihilism to passion,

Unspeakable: The Autobiography (Bercow John)(Paperback)

Candid. Controversial. Gripping. The fascinating memoirs of the former Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, one of the most famous people in politics in the last

The Double and the Gambler (Dostoevsky Fyodor)(Paperback)

The award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have given us the definitive version of Fyodor Dostoevsky's strikingly original short novels, The Double and The Gambler.The Double is a surprisingly modern hallucinatory nightmare-foreshadowing Kafka and Sartre-in which a minor

The Brothers Karamazov (Bicentennial Edition): A Novel in Four Parts with Epilogue (Dostoevsky Fyodor)(Paperback)

This new, revised edition of the award-winning translation of Dostoevsky's classic novel celebrates the author's two hundredth birthdayWinner of the Pen/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a