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Author | : Fyodor Dostoevsky |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 656 |
Release | : 2012-07-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0553901893 |
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 a man of pure innocence. 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.
Author | : Fyodor Dostoevsky |
Publisher | : Alma Classics |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-09-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781847493439 |
Saintly Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from a Swiss sanitorium and finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with wealth, power and sexual conquest. He soon becomes entangled in a love triangle with a notorius kept woman, Nastasya, and a beautiful young girl, Aglaya.
Author | : Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 652 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Set in the 1870s, a time of social disorder in Russia, An Accidental Family is the story of Arkady Dolgoruky, an awkward, illegitimate twenty-year-old on a desperate search for his family. This new translation of Dostoevsky's last completed novel fully captures the raciness and youthful vigor of the original text, and expresses "the innermost spiritual world of someone on the eve of manhood at that tumultuous time."
Author | : Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
Publisher | : Aegitas |
Total Pages | : 722 |
Release | : 2018-12-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1773139827 |
Demons is an anti-nihilistic novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It is the third of the four great novels written by Dostoyevsky after his return from Siberian exile, the others being Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov. Demons is a social and political satire, a psychological drama, and large scale tragedy.
Author | : Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 630 |
Release | : 1955-01-01 |
Genre | : Continental European fiction (Fictional works by one author). |
ISBN | : 9780140440546 |
The Idiot is the story of a saintly, Christian man who is thrust into the heart of a society more concerned with wealth, power and sexual conquest than with the ideals of Christianity. My intention is to portray a truly beautiful soul.--Fyodor Dostoevsky. A Bantam Classic.
Author | : Nikolai Gogol |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 463 |
Release | : 2011-08-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307803368 |
Using, or rather mimicking, traditional forms of storytelling Gogol created stories that are complete within themselves and only tangentially connected to a meaning or moral. His work belongs to the school of invention, where each twist and turn of the narrative is a surprise unfettered by obligation to an overarching theme. Selected from Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka, Mirgorod, and the Petersburg tales and arranged in order of composition, the thirteen stories in The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogolencompass the breadth of Gogol's literary achievement. From the demon-haunted “St. John's Eve ” to the heartrending humiliations and trials of a titular councilor in “The Overcoat,” Gogol's knack for turning literary conventions on their heads combined with his overt joy in the art of story telling shine through in each of the tales. This translation, by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, is as vigorous and darkly funny as the original Russian. It allows readers to experience anew the unmistakable genius of a writer who paved the way for Dostevsky and Kafka.
Author | : Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
Publisher | : Courier Dover Publications |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2017-03-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0486814149 |
This unique document of the Russian author's creative process is illustrated by facsimiles of original pages from his notebooks, which reveal at least eight plans for the story, each with numerous variations.
Author | : Fyodor Dostoevsky |
Publisher | : Oxford Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 692 |
Release | : 2008-06-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Revealing Dostoevsky's acute artistic sense and penetrating psychological insight, this new translation is meticulously faithful to the original.
Author | : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 529 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0525520813 |
From the celebrated, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and War and Peace a lavish, masterfully rendered volume of stories by one of the most influential short fiction writers of all time. Chekhov's genius left an indelible impact on every literary form in which he wrote, but none more so than short fiction. Now, renowned translators and longtime house authors Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky give us their peerless renderings of fifty-two Chekhov stories--a full deck These stories, which span the full arc of his career, reveal the extraordinary variety and unexpectedness of his work, from the farcically comic to the darkly complex, showing that there is no one type of "Chekhov story." They are populated by a remarkable range of characters who come from all parts of Russia, all walks of life, and who, taken together, have democratized the short story. Included here are a number of never-before-translated stories, including "Reading" and "An Educated Blockhead." Here is a collection that promises profound delight.
Author | : Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 785 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Innocence (Psychology) |
ISBN | : 9781501029134 |
"The 26-year-old Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin returns to Russia after spending several years at a Swiss sanatorium. Scorned by the society of St. Petersburg for his trusting nature and naiveté, he finds himself at the center of a struggle between a beautiful kept woman and a virtuous and pretty young girl, both of whom win his affection. Unfortunately, Myshkin's very goodness precipitates disaster, leaving the impression that, in a world obsessed with money, power, and sexual conquest, a sanatorium may be the only place for a saint"--Wikipedia, accessed February 22, 2015.