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The Double, Notes from the Underground, the Eternal Husband

The Short Novels of Dostoevsky

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California

Notebooks For A Raw Youth 

Rhode Island

THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV

Notes From The Underground-The Gambler

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Constance Garnett

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Crime and Punishment

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A. D. P. Briggs

Kentucky

Translated by Constance Garnett with an Introduction by A.D.P. Briggs.

In 1869 a young Russian was strangled, shot through the head and thrown into a pond. His crime? A wish to leave a small group of violent revolutionaries, from which he had become alienated. Dostoevsky takes this real-life catastrophe as the subject and culmination of Devils, a title that refers the young radicals themselves and also to the materialistic ideas that possessed the minds of many thinking people Russian society at the time.

The satirical portraits of the revolutionaries, with their naivety, ludicrous single-mindedness and readiness for murder and destruction, might seem exaggerated - until we consider their all-too-recognisable descendants in the real world ever since. The key figure in the novel, however, is beyond politics. Nikolay Stavrogin, another product of rationalism run wild, exercises his charisma with ruthless authority and total amorality. His unhappiness is accounted for when he confesses to a ghastly sexual crime - in a chapter long suppressed by the censor.

This prophetic account of modern morals and politics, with its fifty-odd characters, amazing events and challenging ideas, is seen by some critics as Dostoevsky's masterpiece.

Devils

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Texas

The short works of Dostoevsky exist in the very large shadow of his astonishing longer novels, but they too are among the best works in the history of literature. The Gambler chronicles Dostoevsky’ s own addiction, which he eventually overcame. Many have argued that Notes From the Underground contains several keys to understanding the themes of the longer novels, like Crime and Punishment and The Idiot. Those stories are joined here by other classics, including White Nights and The Eternal Husband. In the introduction to this volume, Ronald Hingley writes: “ It is admittedly impossible to evaluate or understand Dostoevsky’ s major work properly without taking into account his less voluminous writings, (and) it is also true that many of his shorter works are masterpieces in their own right— as it is hoped the reader may remind himself or discover for the first time...” Great Short Works of Dostoyevsky includes: The Double White Nights A Disgraceful Affair Notes from the Underground The Gambler The Eternal Husband A Gentle Creature The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

Great Short Works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Roger Cockrell

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 and incitement to suicide. But when they are forced to test the limits of their doctrine and kill one of their own to secure the secrecy of their mission, the ragtag group breaks up in mutual recrimination.
Devils is at once a compelling political statement and a study of atheism and its calamitous effect on a country that is teetering on the edge of an abyss. Seen as Dostoevsky's most powerful indictment of man's propensity to violence, this darkly humorous work, shot through with grotesque comedy, is presented here in Roger Cockrell's masterful new translation.

Devils: New Translation

In 1864, just prior to the years in which he wrote his greatest novels -- Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Possessed and The Brothers Karamazov -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) penned the darkly fascinating Notes from the Underground. Its nameless hero is a profoundly alienated individual in whose brooding self-analysis there is a search for the true and the good in a world of relative values and few absolutes. Moreover, the novel introduces themes -- moral, religious, political and social -- that dominated Dostoyevsky's later works. Notes from the Underground, then, aside from its own compelling qualities, offers readers an ideal introduction to the creative imagination, profundity and uncanny psychological penetration of one of the most influential novelists of the nineteenth century. Constance Garnett's authoritative translation is reprinted here, with a new introduction.

Notes from the Underground

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Priscilla Meyer

Elina Yuffa

Nicholas Rice

Juliya Salkovskaya

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New York

Depicts the cruelty and injustice of life, exemplifying the author's concern for the depraved man and his preoccupation with guilt.

Michael R. Katz

Devils, also known in English as The Possessed and The Demons, was first published in 1871-2. The third of Dostoevsky's five major novels, it is at once a powerful political tract and a profound study of atheism, depicting the disarray which follows the appearance of a band of modish radicalsin a small provincial town. Dostoevsky compares infectious radicalism to the devils that drove the Gadarene swine over the precipice in his vision of a society possessed by demonic creatures that produce devastating delusions of rationality.Dostoevsky is at his most imaginatively humorous in Devils: the novel is full of buffoonery and grotesque comedy. The plot is loosely based on the details of a notorious case of political murder, but Dostoevsky weaves suicide, rape, and a multiplicity of scandals into a compelling story ofpolitical evil.This new translation also includes the chapter `Stavrogin's Confession', which was initially considered to be too shocking to print. In this edition it appears where the author originally intended it.

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In a timeless story of justice, morality, and redemption, an impoverished Russian student murders a miserly landlady, a crime that has severe repercussions on his life and his family as he battles his conscience.

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Sidney Monas

Pennsylvania

Determined to overreach his humanity and assert his untrammelled individual will, Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the Tsars, commits an act of murder and theft and sets into motion a story which, for its excrutiating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its profundity of characterization and vision, is almost unequaled in the literatures of the world. The best known of Dostoevsky's masterpieces, Crime and Punishment can bear any amount of rereading without losing a drop of its power over our imagination.

Crime and Punishment 

Richard Pevear

Larissa Volokhonsky

Nevada

Written in 1864, this classic novel recounts the apology and confession of a minor nineteenth-century official, an almost comical account of the man's separation from society and his descent "underground"

Notes from Underground

Diver Thrift Edition 2004

Accused of political subversion as a young man, Dostoyevsky was sentenced to 4 years of hard labor at a Siberian prison camp. Years later, he developed this semi-autobiographical memoir of a man condemned to penal servitude for murdering his wife. This haunting and remarkable work ranks amoung Dostoyevsky's greatest masterpieces.

The House of the Dead

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Three Novels

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Joseph Frank

Arrested in 1849 for belonging to a secret group of radical utopians, Fyodor Dostoevsky was sentenced to four years in a Siberian labor camp a terrible mental, spiritual, and physical ordeal that inspired him to write the novel The House of the Dead.
Told from the point of view of a fictitious narrator- a convict serving a ten-year sentence for murdering his wife The House of the Dead describes in vivid detail the horrors that Dostoevsky himself witnessed while in prison: the brutality of guards who relish cruelty for its own sake; the evil of criminals who enjoy murdering children; and the existence of decent souls amid filth and degradation.
Also included in this volume is Dostoevsky's first published work, Poor Folk, a novel written in the form of letters that brought him immediate critical and public recognition.



In "The House of the Dead, Dostoevsky give vent to his perceptions of prison life, writing from his grueling experience in a Siberian camp, and introduces a gallery of boastful and ridiculous convicts surrounding the narrator. The epistolary novel "Poor Folk was Dostoevsky''s first major literary success, and shows hte early sparks of his genius.

The House of the Dead and Poor Folk

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Leonard Stanton

James D. Hardy

Nebraska

The story of an impoverished Russion student's murder of a miserly landlady and its repercussions on his life and his family is accompanied by an introduction placing the novel in its Christian context

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Kansas

A man condemned to penal servitude in Siberia relates the effects of imprisonment on himself and his fellow prisoners.

Notes from a Dead House

Fedor M. Dostoevsky

Massachusetts

First published in 1871-2, this third of Dostoevsky's five major novels is at once a powerful political tract and a profound study of atheism, depicting the disarray which follows the appearance of a band of modish radicals in a small provincial town. The novel is full of buffoonery and grotesque comedy, and the plot is loosely based on the details of a notorious case of political murder.

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Crime and Punishment

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Crime and Punishment

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Notes from Underground

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Three Novels

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The House of the Dead and Poor Folk

Fyodor Dostoevsky; Sidney Monas; Leonard Stanton; James D. Hardy

Crime and Punishment

Priscilla Meyer; Constance Garnett; Elina Yuffa; Nicholas Rice; Juliya Salkovskaya; Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky; Sidney Monas

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky; Richard Pevear; Larissa Volokhonsky

Notes from a Dead House

Fedor M. Dostoevsky; Michael R. Katz

Devils