Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.” Rodion Raskolnikov is a deeply troubled, impoverished student living in the bowels of Saint Petersburg. He is in immediate need of money, and in his desperation he hatches an ugly plan: to murder a wealthy pawnbroker and steal her money, convincing himself that he will use it to elevate himself in society and accomplish great deeds. But once the terrible deed is done, Raskolnikov is immediately stricken with guilt and self-loathing, and struggles to reconcile his sense of moral superiority with his warring conscience. And all the while, a noose is slowly being slipped around his neck as the shrewd detective Porfiry Petrovich is closing on him…

Crime and Punishment

The narrative deals with the psychology of a man who is the victim of social injustice yet does not take any action to alter his fate. His failure to realize that there are others like him increases his feelings of alienation. An elaboration of the inferiority complex that is suffered by him is given by dwelling on his personality traits.

Notes from the Underground

Notes from the Underground is a novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Notes is considered by many to be one of the first existentialist novels. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred to by critics as the Underground Man) who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg. The first part of the story is told in monologue form, or the underground man's diary, and attacks emerging Western philosophy, especially Nikolay Chernyshevsky's What Is to Be Done?. The second part of the book is called "Apropos of the Wet Snow," and describes certain events that, it seems, are destroying and sometimes renewing the underground man, who acts as a first person, unreliable narrator and anti-hero. In the 1860s, Russia was beginning to absorb the ideas and culture of Western Europe at an accelerated pace, nurturing an unstable local climate. There was especially a growth in revolutionary activity accompanying a general restructuring of tsardom where liberal reforms, enacted by an unwieldy autocracy, only induced a greater sense of tension in both politics and civil society. Many of Russia's intellectuals were engaged in a debate with the Westernizers on one hand, and the Slavophiles on the other, concerned with favoring importation of Western reforms or promoting pan-Slavic traditions to address Russia's particular social reality. Even though in 1861, Tsar Alexander emancipated the serfs, Russia was still very much a post-medieval, traditional peasant society. However, when Notes From Underground was written, there was an intellectual ferment on discussions regarding religious philosophy and various 'enlightened' utopian ideas. Dostoyevsky, however, along with his notable contemporary, Soren Kierkegaard, rejected such ideas for proto-existentialist themes. Most importantly, the legacy that the work leaves is a challenge to and a method of understanding the larger implications of a utopian society. Utopianism largely pertains to a society's collective dream, but what the Underground Man troubles is this very idea of collectivism. The point of the Underground Man is that the people will ultimately always rebel against a collectively perceived idea of paradise; individuals dreaming of a utopian image such as The Crystal Palace will always conflict because of the underlying irrationality of humanity. The challenge of an enlightened society laid the groundwork for later writing. The work thus earned the title of "probably the most important single source of the modern dystopia."

Crime And Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky

Роман в 4-х частях с эпилогом

Братья Карамазовы

Notes from Underground (Russian: Zapiski iz podpol'ya), also translated as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld, is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Notes is considered by many to be one of the first existentialist novels. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred to by critics as the Underground Man) who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg. The first part of the story is told in monologue form, or the underground man's diary, and attacks emerging Western philosophy, especially Nikolay Chernyshevsky's What Is to Be Done? The second part of the book is called "Apropos of the Wet Snow" and describes certain events that appear to be destroying and sometimes renewing the underground man, who acts as a first person, unreliable narrator and anti-hero.

By Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The two years before he wrote Crime and Punishment (1866) had been bad ones for Dostoyevsky. His wife and brother had died; the magazine he and his brother had started, Epoch, collapsed under its load of debt; and he was threatened with debtor's prison. With an advance that he managed to wangle for an unwritten novel, he fled to Wiesbaden, hoping to win enough at the roulette table to get himself out of debt. Instead, he lost all his money; he had to pawn his clothes and beg friends for loans to pay his hotel bill and get back to Russia. One of his begging letters went to a magazine editor, asking for an advance on yet another unwritten novel - which he described as Crime and Punishment.One of the supreme masterpieces of world literature, Crime and Punishment catapulted Dostoyevsky to the forefront of Russian writers and into the ranks of the world's greatest novelists. Drawing upon experiences from his own prison days, the author recounts in feverish, compelling tones the story of Raskolnikov, an impoverished student tormented by his own nihilism, and the struggle between good and evil. Believing that he is above the law, and convinced that humanitarian ends justify vile means, he brutally murders an old woman - a pawnbroker whom he regards as "stupid, ailing, greedy...good for nothing." Overwhelmed afterwards by feelings of guilt and terror, Raskolnikov confesses to the crime and goes to prison. There he realizes that happiness and redemption can only be achieved through suffering. Infused with forceful religious, social, and philosophical elements, the novel was an immediate success. This extraordinary, unforgettable work is reprinted here in the authoritative Constance Garnett translation.

Unabridged Edition

The Brothers Karamazov, also translated as The Karamazov Brothers, is the last novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. Dostoevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger from January 1879 to November 1880. Dostoevsky died less than four months after its publication. It has been acclaimed as one of the supreme achievements in world literature. Set in 19th-century Russia, The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel that discusses questions of God, free will, and morality. It has also been described as a theological drama dealing with problems of faith, doubt, and reason in the context of a modernizing Russia, with a plot that revolves around the subject of patricide. Dostoevsky composed much of the novel in Staraya Russa, which inspired the main setting.

The Brothers Karamazov

"I don't know how to be silent when my heart is speaking." Set in the enchanting streets of St. Petersburg, this is a story of a young man who is a dreamer, and wanders on the city's deserted lanes during long summer nights. On a foggy night, under the hazy streetlights, a young man met Nastenka, who captured his heart with her beauty and innocence. They spent four consecutive nights together, as he becomes increasingly besotted with Nastenka, sharing his innermost thoughts and feelings. Just as he was beginning to feel safe in their oasis, he discovers that Nastenka is in love with another man; a prince who has promised to return to her after a long absence. Yet, he is certain that even Nastenka is drawn to him, each grappling with their own sense of longing and desire for connection. Through this vivid narrative of the intoxicating power of hope, the young man's monologues reveal his absolute yearning for love, while Nastenka's vulnerability and romantic idealism add layers of emotion to the story. Through these fragile yet sublime characters we witness the beauty and pain of unrequited love.

(Original, Unabridged Classic)

White Nights

Fjodr Michailowitsch Dostojewski - Geboren am 11.11.1821 in Moskau, gestorben am 09.02.1881 in Petersburg.

Roman in Vier Teilen Mit Einem Epilog

Erniedrigte und Beleidigte

Arme Leute ist der erste Roman des russischen Schriftstellers Fjodor Dostojewski. Der Briefroman wurde zwischen 1844 und 1845 geschrieben und begr�ndete Dostojewskis Ruhm. Er erreichte eine ungew�hnlich breite Leserschaft und wurde auch von einflussreichen zeitgen�ssischen Kritikern wie Wissarion Grigorjewitsch Belinski teilweise euphorisch aufgenommen. Er wurde 1846 erstmals in der Zeitschrift Peterburgski Sbornik ver�ffentlicht.

Arme Leute

A Novel in Six Parts and an Epilogue

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A Novel in Four Parts

The Idiot

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If there is anything most enigmatic and intriguing in this whole wide world, it is the human mind and how it behaves with respect to the situations, experiences, perceptions, its understanding of the situation and many more unfathomable reasons. The Brothers Karamazov, is a fruitful attempt by Fyodor Dostoevsky, where he binds the characters in a series of events and situations that reveal their innermost thoughts, actions and intentions. Set up in Russian backdrop the story is about the father and son who fight over the inheritance which only latter of them is entitled to. This opens a can of worms as men get into the conflict and one thing leads to other. With a well explained philosophical angle to it, the book gives the message of forgiveness in all things which is the only way lead a peaceful and calm life.

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In Large Print

The twenty-six-year-old Prince Myshkin, following a stay of several years in a Swiss sanatorium, returns to Russia to collect an inheritance and be among people. Even before he reaches home he meets the dark Rogozhin, a rich merchant's son whose obsession with the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna eventually draws all three of them into a tragic denouement. In Petersburg the prince finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with money, power, and manipulation. Scandal escalates to murder as Dostoevsky traces the surprising effect of this positively beautiful man on the people around him, leading to a final scene that is one of the most powerful in all of world literature.

James Joyce

Charles Dickens

Virginia Woolf

Jack London

H.G. Wells

Daniel Defoe

Alexandre Dumas

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Oscar Wilde

Friedrich Nietzsche

H.P. Lovecraft

Charles Darwin

Marcel Proust

G.K. Chesterton

Mark Twain

Frances Hodgson Burnett

William Shakespeare

E. M. Forster

Arthur Conan Doyle

Lewis Carroll

Edgar Allan Poe

Jules Verne

Sigmund Freud

Jane Austen

Thomas Hardy

Louisa May Alcott

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert William Chambers

Wilkie Collins

J.M. Barrie

Andrew Lang

Vatsyayana

Margaret Deland

B. M. Bower

William Strunk Jr.

Hermann Hesse

Francis Scott Fitzgerald

DXBooks

This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names - Little Women [Louisa May Alcott] - Sense and Sensibility [Jane Austen] - Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) [J.M. Barrie] - Cabin Fever [ B. M. Bower] - The Secret Garden [Frances Hodgson Burnett] - A Little Princess [Frances Hodgson Burnett] - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [Lewis Carroll] - The King in Yellow [Robert William Chambers] - The Man Who Knew Too Much [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] - The Woman in White [Wilkie Collins] - On the Origin of Species, 6th Edition [Charles Darwin] - Robinson Crusoe [Daniel Defoe] - The Iron Woman [Margaret Deland] - David Copperfield [Charles Dickens] - Oliver Twist [Charles Dickens] - A Tale of Two Cities [Charles Dickens] - The Double [Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky] - The Hound of the Baskervilles [Arthur Conan Doyle] - The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [Arthur Conan Doyle] - The Three Musketeers [Alexandre Dumas] - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button [Francis Scott Fitzgerald] - A Room with a View [E. M. Forster] - Dream Psychology [Sigmund Freud] - Tess of the d'Urbervilles [Thomas Hardy] - Siddhartha [Hermann Hesse] - Dubliners [James Joyce] - The Arabian Nights [Andrew Lang] - The Sea Wolf [Jack London] - The Call of Cthulhu [Howard Phillips Lovecraft] - Anne of Green Gables [Lucy Maud Montgomery] - Beyond Good and Evil [Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche] - The Murders in the Rue Morgue [Edgar Allan Poe] - The Black Cat [Edgar Allan Poe] - The Raven [Edgar Allan Poe] - The Fall of the House of Usher [Edgar Allan Poe] - Swann's Way [Marcel Proust] - Romeo and Juliet [William Shakespeare] - Treasure Island [Robert Louis Stevenson] - The Elements of Style [William Strunk Jr.] - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer [Mark Twain] - The Prince and the Pauper [Mark Twain] - The Kama Sutra [Vatsyayana] - A Journey into the Center of the Earth [Jules Verne] - The Mysterious Island [Jules Verne] - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea [Jules Verne] - The War of the Worlds [H. G. Wells] - The Time Machine [H. G. Wells] - The Star [H.G Wells] - The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde - The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf

50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 2 (2024 Edition)

Constance Garnett

After a brief military career, the illustrious Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky quickly turned to writing as a profession with the publication of his first novel, "Poor Folk," in 1846. This novel sparked a literary career that would eventually cement Dostoyevsky's reputation as one of the greatest novelists of the nineteenth century. Early participation in a literary/political group landed the writer in exile in Siberia for nearly a decade, an experience which had a profound influence on Dostoyevsky's understanding of fate, the suffering of human beings, and resulted in a powerful religious conversion experience. Dostoyevsky's works are marked by his penetrating exploration of psychology and morality, which are today cited as highly 'existentialist.' This edition contains White Nights, one of Dostoyevsky's best-known short stories and an excellent introduction to his works. Also included are the following stories: Notes From Underground, A Faint Heart, A Christmas Tree and a Wedding, Polzunkov, A Little Hero, and Mr. Prohartchin.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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