Transl. and annotated by Kenneth Lantz; intr. study by Gary Saul Morson. — Evanston, IL: Northwestern Univcrsitv Press, 1993. — 820 p. — ISBN 0-8101-1094-6 Dostoevsky's Writer's Diary immediately strikes the reader as one of the strangest works of world literature.' In the Russian tradition of "loose baggy monsters," the Diary may be the loosest and baggiest-as if it were...
Достоевский Федор. Честный вор.
Неизвестный рассказчик повествует о том, что его обычно сдержанная и молчаливая кухарка Аграфена настойчиво попросила как-то своего хозяина пустить в дом одного жильца из «бывалых людей»: отставного солдата Астафия Ивановича. Хозяин согласился, и вот однажды в отсутствие Аграфены и Астафия Ивановича, но в присутствие хозяина-рассказчика в дом...
1866 767 pages Raskolnikov was not used to crowds, and, as we said before, he avoided society of every sort, more especially of late. But now all at once he felt a desire to be with other people. Something new seemed to be taking place within him, and with it he felt a sort of thirst for company. He was so weary after a whole month of concentrated wretchedness and gloomy...
Ф.М. Достоевский. Преступление и наказание. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Без выходных данных. Перевод одного из вершинных произведений русской литературы на английский язык. Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in St. Petersburg who formulates and executes a...
Crime and Punishment is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments during 1866. It was later published in a single volume. It is the second of Dostoyevsky's full-length novels following his return from ten years of exile in Siberia. Crime and Punishment is considered the...
Transl. by Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky. — Vintage Classics, 2000. — ISBN: 0375411224. Demons (Russian: Бесы, Bésy) is a novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, first published in the journal The Russian Messenger in 1871–2. It is the third of the four great novels written by Dostoyevsky after his return from Siberian exile, the others being Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot...
Transl. by Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky. — Vintage Classics, 2015. — ISBN: 978-0-307-95960-7. From renowned translators Richard Pevear and Lindsay Volokhonsky comes a new translation - certain to become the definitive version - of the first great prison memoir, a fictionalized account of Fyodor Dostoevsky's life-changing penal servitude in Siberia. Sentenced to death for...
1864
161 pages
I am a sick man. . I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I believe my liver is diseased. However, I know nothing at all about my disease, and do not know for certain what ails me. I don’t consult a doctor for it, and never have, though I have a respect for medicine and doctors. Besides, I am extremely superstitious, sufficiently so to respect medicine,...
Transl. by Jessie Coulson. — Penguin Classics, 2003. — EISBN: 978–0–141–90409–2.
Notes from Underground (Russian: Записки из подполья, Zapiski iz podpol'ya), also translated as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld, is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Notes is considered by many to be one of the first existentialist novels. It presents itself as an...
The novel showcases the life of poor people, their relationship with rich people, and poverty in general, all common themes of literary naturalism. A deep but odd friendship develops between them until Dobroselova loses her interest in literature, and later in communicating with Devushkin after a rich widower Mr. Bykov proposes to her. Devushkin, a prototype of the clerk found in...
Dover Publications, 2007. — 112 p. When Poor Folk was first published in 1846, Dostoyevsky—one of nineteenth-century Russia's most important authors—was just twenty-four years old. The novel brought him immediate critical and public acclaim. A poignant societal and physiological sketch, Dostoyevsky's masterpiece is written in the form of letters of correspondence between two...
Alma Books, 2013. — 192 р. Introducing the first in a long line of underground characters, Dostoevsky's first full-length work of fiction is a poignant, tragi-comic tale which foreshadows the greatness of his later novels Presented as a series of letters between the humble copying-clerk Devushkin and a distant relative of his, the young Varenka, this book brings to the fore the...
Transl. by Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky. — Vintage Classics, 2007. — eISBN 978-0-307-42811-0.
The narrator and protagonist of Dostoevsky’s novel The Adolescent (first published in English as A Raw Youth) is Arkady Dolgoruky, a naive 19-year-old boy bursting with ambition and opinions. The illegitimate son of a dissipated landowner, he is torn between his desire to expose...
Литература для чтения на английском языке. 6й уровень.
1880
1,313 pages
Fyodor Pavlovitch made her an offer; inquiries were made about him and he was refused. But again, as in his first marriage, he proposed an elopement to the orphan girl. There is very little doubt that she would not on any account have married him if she had known a little more about him in time. But she...
Transl. by Constance Garnett. — Chicago; London: William Benton, Publisher; Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., 1952. — 420 p. — (Great books of the Western World 52). — ISBN 0-85229-163-9. The Brothers Karamazov , sometimes translated as The Karamazov Brothers, is the last novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. He spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov , which was published...
Transl. by Constance Garnett. — Chicago; London: William Benton, Publisher; Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., 1952. — 420 p. — (Great books of the Western World, 52) — ISBN: 0-85229-163-9 The Brothers Karamazov , sometimes translated as The Karamazov Brothers, is the last novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. He spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov , which was published...
The story relates the events that befall one Ivan Matveich when he, his wife Elena Ivanovna, and the narrator visit the Arcade to see a crocodile that has been put on display by a German entrepreneur. After teasing the crocodile, Ivan Matveich is swallowed alive. He finds the inside of the crocodile to be quite comfortable, and the animal's owner refuses to allow it to be cut...
The Double centers on a government clerk who goes mad. It deals with the internal psychological struggle of its main character, Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, who repeatedly encounters someone who is his exact double in appearance but confident, aggressive, and extroverted, characteristics that are the polar opposites to those of the toadying "pushover" protagonist. The motif of the...
308 p. The House of the Dead (Russian: Записки из Мёртвого дома, Zapiski iz Myortvogo doma) is a semi-autobiographical novel published in 1860–2[1] in the journal Vremya by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, which portrays the life of convicts in a Siberian prison camp. The novel has also been published under the titles Memoirs from the House of The Dead, Notes from the Dead House...
Литература для чтения на английском языке - 6й уровень.
1869 year
913 pages
This sort of character is met with pretty frequently in a certain class. They are people who know everyone—that is, they know where a man is employed, what his salary is, whom he knows, whom he married, what money his wife had, who are his cousins, and second cousins, etc., etc. These men generally...
Transl. from the Russian: Ignat Avsey. ― Oxford University Press, 1998. ― 1054 p. ― (Oxford World's Classics). ― ISBN 978-0-19-283509-3. Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, The Karamazov Brothers (1880) is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is murdered; his sons – the atheist...
Transl. from the Russian: Ignat Avsey. ― Oxford University Press, 1998. ― 1762 p. ― (Oxford World's Classics). ― ISBN 978-0-19-283509-3. Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, The Karamazov Brothers (1880) is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is murdered; his sons – the atheist...
Originally published in 1916. — Global Grey, 2014. — 695 p. Demons is an allegory of the potentially catastrophic consequences of the political and moral nihilism that were becoming prevalent in Russia in the 1860s. A fictional town descends into chaos as it becomes the focal point of an attempted revolution, orchestrated by master conspirator Pyotr Verkhovensky. The mysterious...
The Macmillian Company, 1918. White nights. Notes from underground. A faint heart. A Christmas tree and a wedding. Polzunkov. A little hero. Mr. Prohartchin.
"A Gentle Spirit" is a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky in 1876. The piece comes with the subtitle of "A Fantastic Story", and it chronicles the relationship between a pawnbroker and a girl that frequents his shop. The story was inspired by a news report that Dostoyevsky read in April 1876 about the suicide of a seamstress. Dostoyevsky referred to it as a "meek suicide" that...
Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in St. Petersburg who formulates and executes a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her money. Raskolnikov argues that with the pawnbroker's money he can perform good deeds to counterbalance the crime, while ridding the world of a worthless...
From the Russian master of psychological characterizations, this novel portrays the carefully planned murder of a miserly, aged pawnbroker by a destitute Saint Petersburg student named Raskolnikov, followed by the emotional, mental, and physical effects of that action. Translated by Constance Garnett.
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...
Upon its first publication in 1846, Poor Folk was an immediate critical triumph. The influential critic Vissarion Belinsky wrote that "the novel reveals secrets about the life and character-types in Russia of a kind never dreamt of by anyone else," and the unknown twenty-five-year-old author was hailed as "the new Gogol." Composed entirely of an exchange of letters between a...
Penguin, 1988. Translated by David McDuff
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 of office , lodging-house and seamstress's rooms and consists of an impoverished love affair in letters between a copy clerk and a young girl who lives opposite him....
Penguin, 1988. Translated by David McDuff
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 of office , lodging-house and seamstress's rooms and consists of an impoverished love affair in letters between a copy clerk and a young girl who lives opposite him....
Penguin, 1988. Translated by David McDuff 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 of office , lodging-house and seamstress's rooms and consists of an impoverished love affair in letters between a copy clerk and a young girl who lives opposite him....
The World's Popular Classics. — New York, Boston: Books, Inc. Publishers. An Honest Thief. A Novel in Nine Letters. An Unpleasant Predicament. Another Man's Wife. The Heavenly Christmas Tree. The Peasant Marey. The Crocodile. Bobok. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man.
The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel set in 19th century Russia, that enters deeply into the ethical debates of God, free will, and morality. It is a spiritual drama of moral struggles concerning faith, doubt, and reason, set against a modernizing Russia, with a plot which revolves around the subject of patricide. Dostoyevsky composed much of the novel in...
Translated from Russian By Constance Garnett. — New York: The Lowell Press. The Brothers Karamazov (Russian: Бра́тья Карама́зовы, Brat'ya Karamazovy, pronounced [ˈbratʲjə kərɐˈmazəvɨ]), also translated as The Karamazov Brothers, is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Dostoyevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a...
Delphi Classics, 2014. — 4927 p. Widely regarded as one of the greatest psychologists in world literature, Fyodor Dostoyevsky crafted unique literary works that explored the psychology of the troubled political, social and spiritual atmosphere of nineteenth century Russia. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works of Dostoyevsky, with numerous illustrations, rare...
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"The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" is a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky written in 1877. It chronicles the experiences of a man who decides that there is nothing of any value in the world and is therefore determined to commit suicide. A chance encounter with a young girl, however, begins the man on a journey that re-instills a love for his fellow...
Достоевский Федор. Вечный муж. Translated by Constance Garnett. — Brooklyn: Melville House Publishing, 2005. — 116 p. The Eternal Husband may, in fact, constitute his most classically-shaped composition, with his most devilish plot: a man answers a late-night knock on the door to find himself in a tense and puzzling confrontation with the husband of a former lover—but it isn’t...
The Gambler is a short novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky about a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian general. The novella reflects Dostoyevsky's own addiction to roulette, which was in more ways than one the inspiration for the book: Dostoyevsky completed the novella under a strict deadline to pay off gambling debts.
The Gambler (Russian: Игрок, Igrok) is a short novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky about a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian general. The novella reflects Dostoyevsky's own addiction to roulette, which was in more ways than one the inspiration for the book: Dostoyevsky completed the novella under a strict deadline to pay off gambling debts.
The first-person...
The Grand Inquisitor is a parable in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880). It is told by Ivan, who questions the possibility of a personal and benevolent God, to his brother Alyosha, a novice monk. The Grand Inquisitor is an important part of the novel and one of the best-known passages in modern literature because of its ideas about human nature and...
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's other works, is often considered one of the most brilliant literary achievements of the "Golden Age" of Russian literature.
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Достоевский Фёдор. Униженные и оскорблённые. translated by Constance Garnett. "Униженные и оскорблённые" - роман, впервые опубликованный в 1861 году, первая крупная работа Фёдора Достоевского, написанная после его пребывания в ссылке в Сибири, и первый из его крупных романов. Действие происходит в 19 веке в Петербурге, роман изображает общество людей, страдающих от злых и...
An extremely political book, Demons is a testimonial of life in Imperial Russia in the late 19th century. As the revolutionary democrats began to rise in Russia, different ideologies began to collide. Dostoyevsky casts a critical eye over both the radical idealists, portraying their ideas and ideological foundations as demonic, and the conservative establishment, portraying its...
Translated from the Russian By Constance Garnett. — Publisher unknown, 1916. The Possessed (The Devils) (Russian: Бесы, Bésy) is a novel, first published in the journal The Russian Messenger in 1871–2. In late 1860s Russia there was an unusual level of political unrest caused by student groups influenced by liberal, socialist and revolutionary ideas imported from Europe. In 1869,...
Translated from Russian By Constance Garnett. — New York: The Macmillan Company, 1918. White Nights. Notes From Underground: Part I. Underground. Part II. À Propos Of The Wet Snow. A Faint Heart. A Christmas Tree And A Wedding. Polzunkov. A Little Hero. Mr. Prohartchin.
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