The Idiot
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
In his creation of Prince Muishkin, a character seeking perfection and yet fraught with ambiguity, the author anticipated the universal metaphysical unease of succeeding generations, producing an unforgettable masterpiece…..Read More
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Twenty-one Stories
In 'The Basement Room' a small boy witnesses an event that blights his whole life. Like the other stories in this book (written between 1929 and 1954), it hinges on the themes… Continue Reading Posted in: Classic American Literature, English Fiction, Manners And Customs, Short Stories, Short Stories In English
Demons
Demons, also known as The Possessed or The Devils, is a dark masterpiece that evokes a world where the lines between and good and evil long ago became blurred. This… Continue Reading Posted in: Bibliography, Lawyers & Criminals Humor, Manners And Customs, Russian Fiction, Russian Literature
The Master and Margarita
One of the great imaginative novels of the century, a fierce political satire, filled with the most dazzling surreal humour. The devil makes a personal appearance in Moscow accompanied by… Continue Reading Posted in: Allegories, Lcsh, Translations Into English
The Brothers Karamazov
The murder of brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov changes the lives of his sons irrevocably; Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide;… Continue Reading Posted in: 1821 1881, Dostoyevsky, Fathers And Sons, Fyodor, Psychological Fiction, Reference, Russian Fiction
The House of the Dead/Poor Folk
The House of the Dead and Poor Folk, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and… Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary Literature & Fiction, Exiles, Poor, Russian Literature, Short Stories
Dead Souls
Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the… Continue Reading Posted in: Criticism And Interpretation, Fiction Satire, Operas, Russian Literary Criticism, Social Life And Customs
The Double and The Gambler
The award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have given us the definitive version of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s strikingly original short novels, The Double and The Gambler.The Double is a surprisingly… Continue Reading Posted in: 1821 1881, Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, Gamblers, Psychological Fiction, Russian, Russian Literature, Short Stories
Notes from the Underground
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)… Continue Reading Posted in: 1821 1881, Dostoyevsky, Existentialist Philosophy, Fyodor, Russian, Russian Fiction, Russian Literary Criticism, Short Stories
Poor Folk and Other Stories
Poor Folk was Dostoyevsky's first great triumph in fiction and the work that looks forward to the double-acts and obsessions of his later genius. It takes place in a world… Continue Reading Posted in: Friendship, Linguistics, Short Stories In Russian, Translations Into English
War and Peace
At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon's army marches on Russia, and… Continue Reading Posted in: Bibliography, Military Historical Fiction, Russia (Federation), Social Conditions, War Fiction
A Country Doctor’s Notebook
Brilliant stories that show the growth of a novelist's mind, and the raw material that fed the wild surrealism of Bulgakov's later fiction.With the ink still wet on his diploma,… Continue Reading Posted in: Short Stories, Social Life And Customs, Student Collection
The Trial
Somebody must have laid false information against Josef K., for he was arrested one morning without having done anything wrong.' From this first sentence onwards, Josef K. is on trial… Continue Reading Posted in: Bibliography, Legal Thrillers, Psychological Fiction, Teen & Young Adult Classic Literature, Translations Into English
The House of the Dead
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… Continue Reading Posted in: 1821 1881, Autobiographical Fiction, Bibliography, Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, Russian Literature
The Double
What happens when Tertuliano Maximo Afonso, a 38-year-old professor of history, discovers that there is a man living in the same city who is identical to him on every physical… Continue Reading Posted in: Portuguese Fiction, Portuguese Literature, Psychological Fiction, Psychological Literary Fiction
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
When Dona Flor's husband dies suddenly, she forgets all his defects and remembers only his passion. Erotic nightmares haunt her. Dr Teodoro, a local pharmacist, proposes marriage and Dona Flor… Continue Reading Posted in: Cultural, Fiction, Magical Realism
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