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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of ...Show more
Notes from Underground: Popular Penguins by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
The apology and confession of a minor mid-19th-century Russian official, Notes from Underground is a half-desperate, half-mocking political critique and a powerful, at times absurdly comical, account of man's breakaway from society and descent 'underground'.
Notes from Underground and the Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Classics
'The best thing is to do nothing! Better conscious inertia! So, long live the underground!'Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of hose own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's groundbreaking Notes from Undergroundtells the story of his tortured life. With bitter irony, he ...Show more
Poor Folk and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
With their penetrating psychological insight and their emphasis on human dignity, respect and forgiveness, Dostoyevsky's early short stories contain the seeds of the themes that came to his major novels. "Poor Folk", the author's first great literary triumph, is the story of a tragic relationship betwee ...Show more
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: good
When brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov is murdered, the lives of his sons are changed irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide; Ivan, the intellectual, whose mental tortures drive him to breakdown; the spiritual Alyosha ...Show more
The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
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 incarcerat ...Show more
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; David McDuff (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Translated Texts Ser.
The most autobiographical novel by the author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov – and the namesake of Elif Batuman's debut novel, The Idiot. Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naive epileptic Prince Myshkin – known as the "idiot" – pays a visit to his ...Show more
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