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

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

Notes from Underground (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

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

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 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

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

Winter Notes on Summer Impressions (Dostoevsky Fyodor)(Paperback)

In June 1862, Dostoevsky left Petersburg on his first excursion to Western Europe. Ostensibly making the trip to consult Western specialists about his epilepsy, he also wished to see firsthand the source of the Western ideas he believed were corrupting Russia. Over the course of his journey he

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

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 - Prestuplenie I Nakazanie (Russian Edition) (Dostoevsky Fyodor M.)(Paperback)

Crime and Punishement ('Prestuplenie i nakazanie') by Fyodor Dostoevsky in

Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky Fyodor)(Paperback)

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

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

Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky Fyodor)(Paperback / softback)

Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky Fyodor)(Paperback / softback)

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 Underground and the Double (Dostoyevsky Fyodor)(Paperback)

Collected here in Penguin Classics are two of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's shorter works, Notes from Underground and The Double, translated by Ronald Wilks with an introduction by Robert Louis Jackson. Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of

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

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,

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

Crime and Punishment - Fjodor Michajlovič Dostojevskij

Poverty-stricken and cut off from society, former law student Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov leads a desolate life in a dreary little room in St Petersburg. Having abandoned all hopes of sustaining himself through work, he now obsesses over the idea of changing his fortunes through an extreme act of

Crime and Punishment: A New Translation (Dostoevsky Fyodor)(Paperback)

Published to great acclaim and fierce controversy in 1866, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment has left an indelible mark on global literature and on our modern world. Declared a PBS 'Great American Read,' Michael Katz's sparkling new translation gives new life to the story of Raskolnikov, an

Devils (Dostoevsky Fyodor)(Paperback)

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