Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

California

A Raw Youth

Illinois

Crime and Punishment 

Complete and unabridged. Dell. 15th edition. 1979. Yellowing on pages. 

Vermont

A few tears on the cover but not falling apart 

Crime and Punishment

A Signet Classic edition translated by Sidney Thomas

New Jersey

Crime and punishment

Iowa

3 Novels - VINTAGE 1960

Vintage classic Russian lit paperback from 1961. Signet first printing.

Arizona

Notes From The Underground

This is a very well-used book. Quite a few creases, stains, and some rips. All pages are there, and you can read it all. This book has been very loved. Please ask if you have additional questions. 

Idaho

English

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

The Possessed

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Notes from the underground 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Cool paperback edition translated by Constance Garnett. Dell Publishing 1962 first printing. 

See photos for condition. Overall good, some general wear and a minor tears and bending on some corner pages. Previous owner’s name written on first page, otherwise no annotations or markings. Secure binding. Foxing of pages.

DESCRIPTION

Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women the notorious kept woman Nastasya and the pure Aglaia both involved, in turn, with the corrupt, money-hungry Ganya. In the end, Myshkin s honesty, goodness, and integrity are shown to be unequal to the moral emptiness of those around him. In her revision of the Garnett translation, Anna Brailovsky has corrected inaccuracies wrought by Garnett s drastic anglicization of the novel, restoring as much as possible the syntactical structure of the original."

Rhode Island

The Idiot 1962 Dell Publishing Co.

An excellent 1960 copy by Dell Publishing Co., Inc. There is a signature in the front inside cover, and a few pen underlines throughout. Otherwise, this is a pristine interior with an intact book spine.

Pennsylvania

Three Short Novels by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Notes from Underground; Poor People; The Friend of the Family 

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 Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Striking Dell paperback from 1956.
Abridgement by Edmund Fuller, considered the most authoritative abridgement.
Good vintage condition, tight binding. 50 cents price on cover!
From the library of my Book Aunt. Her name label is inside the front cover, but I dare not remove it. The paper is fragile as is the case for this era. Slight staining on page edge.
Wonderful cover from a painting by Seymour Chwast. A must for any Russian lit collection!

Minnesota

The Brothers Karamazov

Only opened to take pictures, never read through.

Florida

Barnes & Noble leather bound 2011 edition

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Henry Carlisle

Olga Carlisle

Linda Invanits

Gary Rosenshield

A classic by a Russian master

Prince Myshkin, the idiot, is an almost comically innocent Christ figure in a land of sinners, one whose faith in beauty contrasts sharply with that of his society's.




The Idiot  (1294)

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Ignat Avsey

New York

The Village of Stepanchikovo 

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David McDuff

A Novel in Four Parts and an Epilogue

Translated with an Introduction by David McDuff.

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Leonard Stanton

James D. Jr. Hardy

Sidney Monas

Robin Feuer Miller

Virginia

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. Reissue.

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Oliver Ready

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“A truly great translation . . . This English version . . . really is better.” —A. N. Wilson, The Spectator Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read This acclaimed new translation of Dostoyevsky’s “psychological record of a crime” gives his dark masterpiece of murder and pursuit a renewed vitality, expressing its jagged, staccato urgency and fevered atmosphere as never before. Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders alone through the slums of St. Petersburg, deliriously imagining himself above society’s laws. But when he commits a random murder, only suffering ensues. Embarking on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. Only Sonya, a downtrodden prostitute, can offer the chance of redemption. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Manuel Komroff

Sara Paretsky

The final masterpiece from the celebrated author of Crime and Punishment and The Idiot...

This extraordinary novel, Dostoyevsky's last and greatest work, tells the dramatic story of four brothers--Dmitri, pleasure-seeking, impatient, unruly . . . Ivan, brilliant and morose . . . Alyosha, gentle, loving, honest . . . and the illegitimate Smerdyakov, sly, silent, cruel. Driven by intense passion, they become involved in the brutal murder of their own father, one of the most loathsome characters in all literature. Featuring the famous chapter, "The Grand Inquisitor," Dostoyevsky's final masterpiece is at once a complex character study, a riveting murder mystery, and a fascinating examination of man's morality and the question of God's existence.
 
Translated by Constance Garnett
Edited and with a Foreword by Manuel Komroff
and an Afterword by Sara Paretsky


Has some cover wear and yellowing around the edges of the pages, as shown.

'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 life. In this fictionalized account he recounts his soul-destroying incarceration through the cool, detached tones of his narrator, Aleksandr Petrovich Goryanchikov: the daily battle for survival, the wooden plank beds, the cabbage soup swimming with cockroaches, his strange 'family' of boastful, ugly, cruel convicts. Yet The House of the Dead is far more than a work of documentary realism: it is also a powerful novel of redemption, describing one man's spiritual and moral death and the miracle of his gradual reawakening.

This edition includes notes and an introduction discussing the circumstances of Dostoyevsky's imprisonment, the origins of the novel in his prison writings, and the character of Aleksandr Petrovich.

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