Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Henry Carlisle

Olga Carlisle

Linda Invanits

Gary Rosenshield

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Illinois

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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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Roger Cockrell

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

California

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

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Ralph E. Matlaw

Constance Garnett

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A newly revised and annotated text of Dostoevsky's classic novel is accompanied by excerpts from the author's letters and notebooks and critical and interpretive essays by American and European scholars and novelists

The Brothers Karamazov

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Michigan

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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New York

Three Novels

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Colorado

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Dostoevsky's drama of sin, guilt, and redemption transforms the sordid story of an old woman's murder into the nineteenth century's profoundest and most compelling philosophical novel. Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the tsars, is determined to overreach his humanity and assert his untrammeled individual will. When he commits an act of murder and theft, he sets into motion a story that, for its excruciating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its depth 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 imaginations. Award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky render this elusive and wildly innovative novel with an energy, suppleness, and range of voice that do full justice to the genius of its creator.

Crime and Punishment

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George Gibian

Washington

New footnotes have been added, based on discoveries by the leading Soviet Dostoevsky scholar, Sergei Belov. "Backgrounds and Sources", highly praised in the Second Edition, remains unaltered. Included are a detailed map of nineteenth-century St. Petersburg, selections from Dostoevsky's notebooks and letters, and a crucial passage from an early draft of his novel. Noteworthy among the several new "Essays in Criticism" are a little-known but important passage by Leo Tolstoy on Raskolnikov; an essay by Sergei Belov; observations by the Russian literary theoretician and scholar Mikhail Bakhtin; and an essay by the Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz. A Chronology of Dostoevsky's Life and a Selected Bibliography are also included.

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Pennsylvania

The violent lives of three sons are exposed when their father is murdered and each one attempts to come to terms with his own guilt

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Ignat Avsey

The Village of Stepanchikovo 

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Virginia

Five classic stories in a new translation. The title story is on a relationship between a husband and his wife's lover, while A Nasty Anecdote is a satire on a tsarist official who considers himself humane.

The Eternal Husband and Other Stories

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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.

Devils

David McDuff

New Jersey

A Novel in Four Parts and an Epilogue

Translated with an Introduction by David McDuff.

Maire Jaanus

Missouri

In "The Brothers Karamazov, unversally regarded as Dostoevsky's masterpiece, the great Russian author creates psychological portraits with considerable violence and poetry. Among the many memorable episodes is Ivan's recounting of the legend of the Grand Inquisitor--a colloquy that explores in startling depth the question of the existence of God.

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Eight short masterworks, including White Nights, Notes from Underground, The Gambler, A Gentle Creature, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and others.





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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Keith Carabine

With an Introduction and Notes by David Rampton, Department of English, University of Ottowa. Notes from Underground and Other Storiesis a comprehensive collection of Dostoevsky's short fiction. Many of these stories, like his great novels, reveal his special sympathy for the solitary and dispossessed, explore the same complex psychological issues and subtly combine rich characterization and philosophical meditations on the (often) dark areas of the human psyche, all conveyed in an idiosyncratic blend of deadly seriousness and wild humour. In Notes from Underground, the Underground Man casually dismantles utilitarianism and celebrates in its stead a perverse but vibrant masochism. A Christmas Tree and a Weddingrecounts the successful pursuit of a young girl by a lecherous old man. In Bobok, one Ivan Ivanovitch listens in on corpses gossiping in a cemetery and ends up deploring their depravity. In A Gentle Spirit, the narrator describes his dawning recognition that he is responsible for his wife's suicide. In short, as a commentator on spiritual stagnation, Dostoevsky has no equal.

Notes from Underground and Other Stories

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Richard Pevear

Larissa Volokhonsky

Kentucky

The narrator and protagonist of Dostoevsky’s novel The Adolescent (first published in English as A Raw Youth) is Arkady Dolgoruky, a na•ve 19-year-old boy bursting with ambition and opinions. The illegitimate son of a dissipated landowner, he is torn between his desire to expose his father’s wrongdoing and the desire to win his love. He travels to St. Petersburg to confront the father he barely knows, inspired by an inchoate dream of communion and armed with a mysterious document that he believes gives him power over others. This new English version by the most acclaimed of Dostoevsky’s translators is a masterpiece of pathos and high comedy.

The Adolescent

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Notes from the Underground and The Double

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David Magarshack

Minnesota

In The Devils Dostoyevsky created a chilling and prophetic story of revolutionaries and nihilists plotting the overthrow of the Russian government and the downfall of the Russian church. It focuses on the complex and tormented character of Stavrogin, a desperate man whose loss of faith makes him dangerous. Believing he is beyond guilt and remorse, he commits terrible crimes, infects others with ideas he does not believe in and accepts love he does not deserve. Yet Stavrogin is only one of a small band of rebels whose hunger for a more democratic, Western system threatens the fabric of Russian society, and The Devils is a brilliant psychological analysis of a group of people possessed by a destructive passion for revolution.

The Devils

Sidney Monas

Kansas

Leonard Stanton

James D. Jr. Hardy

Robin Feuer Miller

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.

Elizabeth Dalton

Clean text, crisp pages, and solid binding 

Ohio

"Besy" (alternately translated into English as "The Possessed, Demons, and Devils") was originally published in 1872.

The Possessed

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Examines the philosophies of three brothers--officer Dimitri, intellectual Ivan, and patient Alyosha--as their lives are intertwined with a murder.

Joseph Frank

Elina Yuffa

Iowa

The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics [http://www.barnesandnoble.com/classics/index.asp'z=y&cds2Pid=16447&sLinkPrefix] series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
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All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences--biographical, historical, and literary--to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.
 
Just two years after completing Crime and Punishment, which explored the mind of a murderer, Dostoevsky produced another masterpiece, The Idiot. This time the author portrays a truly beautiful soul--a character he found difficult to bring to life because, as he wrote, "beauty is the ideal, and neither my country, nor civilized Europe, know what that ideal of beauty is.” The result was one of Dostoevsky’s greatest characters--Prince Myshkin, a saintly, Christ-like, yet deeply human figure.

The story begins when Myshkin arrives on Russian soil after a stay in a Swiss sanatorium. Scorned by St. Petersburg society as an idiot for his generosity and innocence, the prince finds himself at the center of a struggle between a rich, kept woman and a beautiful, virtuous girl, who both hope to win his affection. Unfortunately, Myshkin’s very goodness seems to bring disaster to everyone he meets. The shocking denouement tragically reveals how, in a world obsessed with money, power, and sexual conquest, a sanatorium is the only place for a saint.
 

Joseph Frank is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Princeton University and Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and Slavic Languages and Literature at Stanford University. He is the author of a five-volume study of Dostoevsky’s life and work. The first four volumes received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, two Christian Gauss Awards, two James Russell Lowell Awards of the Modern Language Association, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and other honors. Frank is also the author of Through the Russian Prism: Essays on Literature and Culture, The Widening Gyre, and The Idea of Spatial Form. He also wrote the introduction to the Barnes & Noble Classics edition of Dostoevsky’s The House of the Dead and Poor Folk.

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Henry Carlisle; Olga Carlisle; Linda Invanits; Gary Rosenshield

The Idiot (1294)

Fyodor Dostoevsky; Roger Cockrell

Devils: New Translation

Fyodor Dostoevsky; Constance Garnett

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The House of the Dead

Constance Garnett; Fyodor Dostoevsky

Three Novels

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky; George Gibian

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Village of Stepanchikovo

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Eternal Husband and Other Stories

Fyodor Dostoevsky; Michael Katz, trans.

Devils

Fyodor Dostoyevsky; David McDuff

The Brothers Karamazov

Maire Jaanus; Constance Garnett; Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Great Short Works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky; Keith Carabine; Constance Garnett

Notes from Underground and Other Stories

Maire Jaanus; Constance Garnett; Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky; Richard Pevear; Larissa Volokhonsky

The Adolescent

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Notes from the Underground and The Double

Fyodor Dostoevsky; David Magarshack

The Devils

Fyodor Dostoevsky; Sidney Monas

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Leonard Stanton; James D. Jr. Hardy; Sidney Monas; Robin Feuer Miller

Crime and Punishment

Constance Garnett; Elizabeth Dalton; Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Possessed

Fyodor Dostoevsky; Constance Garnett

The Brothers Karamazov

Joseph Frank; Constance Garnett; Fyodor Dostoevsky; Elina Yuffa

The Idiot