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

Polnoe sobranie khudozhestvennykh proizvedeniĭ

Crime and Punishment' concentrates on the mental tumult and moral confusion of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impecunious former student in St. Petersburg who contrives to murder a morally bankrupt pawnbroker in order to steal her money. Convinced by a friend who argues that using the pawnbroker's money for benevolent reasons would counterbalance the killing, Rodion commits the crime, but is tormented by contradictory thoughts and the ever-present danger of being caught. This text is a classic work of Russian literature, and will appeal to fans of literature of this ilk. A veritable must-read for serious literature fans, no bookshelf is complete without a copy of 'Crime and Punishment'. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (1821 - 1881) was a Russian novelist, essayist, short story writer, journalist and philosopher. We are republishing this antiquarian book now in a modern, affordable edition complete with a new prefatory biography of the author.

Crime and Punishment the Annotated Volume by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (in English)

Crime and Punishment the Annotated Version by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (in English)

A Russian Realistic Novel

roman v shesti chast︠ia︡kh s ėpilogom

Prestuplen)ie i nakazan)ie

Prestuplenīe i nakazanīe

und andere humoresken

Onkelchens traum

The Idiot is a novel written by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

The Idiot

The Idiot is a novel written by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published serially in The Russian Messenger between 1868 and 1869. The Idiot, alongside some of Dostoyevsky'sother works, is often considered one of the most brilliant literary achievements of the "Golden Age" of Russian literature.

"Idiot" is the fifth novel by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. The novel was first published in the journal "Russian Herald" from January 1868 to February 1869.It is one of the most beloved works of the writer who most fully expressed both the moral and philosophical position of Dostoevsky and his artistic principles in the 1860s.The novel "Idiot" became a realization of the old creative ideas of Dostoevsky, his main character - Prince Lef Nicolaievitch Muishkin, according to the author's judgment, is "a truly wonderful personality", he is the embodiment of goodness and Christian morality. And precisely because of his disinterestedness, kindness and honesty, the extraordinary love for people in the world of money and hypocrisy, the environs call Muishkin an "idiot".Pretty illustrations provide you with new impressions from reading this legendary story.

The Idiot (illustrated)

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.

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The classic story of justice, morality, and redemption set in 19th-century Russia. Russian classic.

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A Novel in Four Parts

Notes from the Underground Fyodor Dostoyevsky Complete and Unabridged Edition Notes from Underground, 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 the first existentialist novel. 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.

Notes from the Underground

Notes from the Underground is a novella written in 1864 by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It is widely believed to be the first existentialist novel.

I am a ridiculous man. They call me mad now. That would be a promotion in rank A delusional man whose strange dream changes his life; a self-justifying husband who causes his wife's suicide; a witness to a young girl's ruin; a writer who stretches out on a gravestone and listens to the gossip of the dead ... the narrators of these four confessional tales show how little we understand ourselves.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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