Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Mikailovich Dostoevsky’s life was as dark and dramatic as the great novels he wrote. He was born in Moscow in 1821,hroat until he strangled. A short first novel, Poor Folk (1846) brought him instant success, but his writing career was cut short by his arrest for alleged subversion against Tsar Nicholas I in 1849. In prison he was given the “silent treatment” for eight months (guards even wore velvet soled boots) before he was led in front a firing squad. Dressed in a death shroud, he faced an open grave and awaited execution, when suddenly, an order arrived commuting his...
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Demons
eBook | 768 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-43486-9 (0-307-43486-9)
May 19, 2010 | $17.95
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
The award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky continue their acclaimed series of Dostoevsky translations with this novel, also known as The Possessed.
Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horrified Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a “novel-pamphlet” in which he...
eBook | 768 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-43486-9 (0-307-43486-9)
May 19, 2010 | $17.95
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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
The award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky continue their acclaimed series of Dostoevsky translations with this novel, also known as The Possessed.
Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horrified Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a “novel-pamphlet” in which he...
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The Adolescent
eBook | 608 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Classics
978-0-307-42811-0 (0-307-42811-7)
December 18, 2007 | $16.95
The narrator and protagonist of Dostoevsky’s novel The Adolescent (first published in English as A Raw Youth) is Arkady Dolgoruky, a na•ve 19-year-old boy bursting with ambition and opinions. The illegitimate son of a dissipated landowner, he is torn between his desire to expose his father’s wrongdoing and the desire to...
eBook | 608 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Classics
978-0-307-42811-0 (0-307-42811-7)
December 18, 2007 | $16.95
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The narrator and protagonist of Dostoevsky’s novel The Adolescent (first published in English as A Raw Youth) is Arkady Dolgoruky, a na•ve 19-year-old boy bursting with ambition and opinions. The illegitimate son of a dissipated landowner, he is torn between his desire to expose his father’s wrongdoing and the desire to...
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hardcover and a
trade paperback.
The Gambler
eBook | 240 pages | Modern Library | Fiction
978-0-307-43224-7 (0-307-43224-6)
December 18, 2007 | $13.00
In this dark and compelling short novel, Fyodor Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young tutor working in the household of an imperious Russian general. Alexey tries to break through the wall of the established order in Russia, but instead becomes mired in the endless downward spiral of betting...
eBook | 240 pages | Modern Library | Fiction
978-0-307-43224-7 (0-307-43224-6)
December 18, 2007 | $13.00
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In this dark and compelling short novel, Fyodor Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young tutor working in the household of an imperious Russian general. Alexey tries to break through the wall of the established order in Russia, but instead becomes mired in the endless downward spiral of betting...
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trade paperback.
The Double and the Gambler
eBook | pages | Vintage | Fiction - Classics
978-0-307-27971-2 (0-307-27971-5)
January 16, 2007 | $15.00
Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
eBook | pages | Vintage | Fiction - Classics
978-0-307-27971-2 (0-307-27971-5)
January 16, 2007 | $15.00
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The Double and The Gambler
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Classics
978-0-375-71901-1 (0-375-71901-6)
January 16, 2007 | $21.00
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 modern hallucinatory nightmare–foreshadowing Kafka and Sartre–in which a minor official named Goliadkin becomes aware of a mysterious doppelganger, a man who...
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Classics
978-0-375-71901-1 (0-375-71901-6)
January 16, 2007 | $21.00
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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 modern hallucinatory nightmare–foreshadowing Kafka and Sartre–in which a minor official named Goliadkin becomes aware of a mysterious doppelganger, a man who...
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hardcover.
The Double and The Gambler
Hardcover | pages | Everyman's Library | Fiction - Classics
978-1-4000-4470-2 (1-4000-4470-7)
October 4, 2005 | $27.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
The two strikingly original short novels brought together here–in new translations by award-winning translators–were both literary gambles of a sort for Dostoevsky.
The Double, written in Dostoevsky’s youth, was a sharp turn away from the realism of his first novel, Poor Folk. The first real expression of his...
Hardcover | pages | Everyman's Library | Fiction - Classics
978-1-4000-4470-2 (1-4000-4470-7)
October 4, 2005 | $27.00
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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
The two strikingly original short novels brought together here–in new translations by award-winning translators–were both literary gambles of a sort for Dostoevsky.
The Double, written in Dostoevsky’s youth, was a sharp turn away from the realism of his first novel, Poor Folk. The first real expression of his...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Idiot
eBook | pages | Bantam Classics | Fiction - Classics
978-0-553-90189-4 (0-553-90189-3)
August 30, 2005 | $6.95
Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women—the notorious kept woman Nastasya and the pure Aglaia—both involved, in turn, with the corrupt, money-hungry Ganya. In the end, Myshkin’s honesty, goodness, and integrity are shown...
eBook | pages | Bantam Classics | Fiction - Classics
978-0-553-90189-4 (0-553-90189-3)
August 30, 2005 | $6.95
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Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women—the notorious kept woman Nastasya and the pure Aglaia—both involved, in turn, with the corrupt, money-hungry Ganya. In the end, Myshkin’s honesty, goodness, and integrity are shown...
The Adolescent
Trade Paperback | 608 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Classics
978-0-375-71900-4 (0-375-71900-8)
December 7, 2004 | $18.95
The narrator and protagonist of Dostoevsky’s novel The Adolescent (first published in English as A Raw Youth) is Arkady Dolgoruky, a na•ve 19-year-old boy bursting with ambition and opinions. The illegitimate son of a dissipated landowner, he is torn between his desire to expose his father’s wrongdoing and the desire to...
Trade Paperback | 608 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Classics
978-0-375-71900-4 (0-375-71900-8)
December 7, 2004 | $18.95
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The narrator and protagonist of Dostoevsky’s novel The Adolescent (first published in English as A Raw Youth) is Arkady Dolgoruky, a na•ve 19-year-old boy bursting with ambition and opinions. The illegitimate son of a dissipated landowner, he is torn between his desire to expose his father’s wrongdoing and the desire to...
Notes from Underground
Hardcover | 160 pages | Everyman's Library | Fiction - Classics
978-1-4000-4191-6 (1-4000-4191-0)
March 23, 2004 | $26.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence...
Hardcover | 160 pages | Everyman's Library | Fiction - Classics
978-1-4000-4191-6 (1-4000-4191-0)
March 23, 2004 | $26.00
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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Adolescent
Hardcover | 520 pages | Everyman's Library | Fiction - Classics
978-1-4000-4118-3 (1-4000-4118-X)
November 11, 2003 | $35.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
This superb new translation—never before published—of one of Dostoevsky’s major novels comes from the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. The Adolescent (originally published in English as A Raw Youth) is markedly different in tone from Dostoevsky’s other masterpieces. It is told from the point of view...
Hardcover | 520 pages | Everyman's Library | Fiction - Classics
978-1-4000-4118-3 (1-4000-4118-X)
November 11, 2003 | $35.00
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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
This superb new translation—never before published—of one of Dostoevsky’s major novels comes from the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. The Adolescent (originally published in English as A Raw Youth) is markedly different in tone from Dostoevsky’s other masterpieces. It is told from the point of view...
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
Brothers Karamazov
eBook | pages | Bantam Classics | Fiction - Classics
978-0-553-89809-5 (0-553-89809-4)
November 4, 2003 | $17.00
Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
eBook | pages | Bantam Classics | Fiction - Classics
978-0-553-89809-5 (0-553-89809-4)
November 4, 2003 | $17.00
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Crime and Punishment
eBook | pages | Bantam Classics | Fiction - Classics
978-0-553-89808-8 (0-553-89808-6)
November 4, 2003 | $6.99
A desperate young man plans the perfect crime -- the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old women no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime, to transgress moral law -- if it will ultimately...
Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
eBook | pages | Bantam Classics | Fiction - Classics
978-0-553-89808-8 (0-553-89808-6)
November 4, 2003 | $6.99
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A desperate young man plans the perfect crime -- the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old women no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime, to transgress moral law -- if it will ultimately...
The Idiot
Trade Paperback | 656 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Classics
978-0-375-70224-2 (0-375-70224-5)
July 8, 2003 | $19.95
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s masterful translation of The Idiot is destined to stand with their versions of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and Demons as the definitive Dostoevsky in English.
After his great portrayal of a guilty man in Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky set out in The Idiot to portray...
Trade Paperback | 656 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Classics
978-0-375-70224-2 (0-375-70224-5)
July 8, 2003 | $19.95
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Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s masterful translation of The Idiot is destined to stand with their versions of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and Demons as the definitive Dostoevsky in English.
After his great portrayal of a guilty man in Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky set out in The Idiot to portray...
The Gambler
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Classics
978-0-8129-6693-0 (0-8129-6693-7)
April 8, 2003 | $15.00
In this dark and compelling short novel, Fyodor Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young tutor working in the household of an imperious Russian general. Alexey tries to break through the wall of the established order in Russia, but instead becomes mired in the endless downward spiral of betting...
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Classics
978-0-8129-6693-0 (0-8129-6693-7)
April 8, 2003 | $15.00
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In this dark and compelling short novel, Fyodor Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young tutor working in the household of an imperious Russian general. Alexey tries to break through the wall of the established order in Russia, but instead becomes mired in the endless downward spiral of betting...
Also available as an
eBook.
The Idiot
Trade Paperback | 720 pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Classics
978-0-679-64242-8 (0-679-64242-0)
April 8, 2003 | $15.00
Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women—the notorious kept woman Nastasya and the pure Aglaia—both involved, in turn, with the corrupt, money-hungry Ganya. In the end, Myshkin’s honesty, goodness, and integrity are shown...
Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Revised by Anna Brailovsky
Translated by Constance Garnett
Introduction by Joseph Frank
Revised by Anna Brailovsky
Translated by Constance Garnett
Introduction by Joseph Frank
Trade Paperback | 720 pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Classics
978-0-679-64242-8 (0-679-64242-0)
April 8, 2003 | $15.00
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Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women—the notorious kept woman Nastasya and the pure Aglaia—both involved, in turn, with the corrupt, money-hungry Ganya. In the end, Myshkin’s honesty, goodness, and integrity are shown...
