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The old woman was merely a sickness... it wasn't a human being I killed, it was a principle! TRANSLATED BY RICHARD PEVEAR & LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY 'The old woman was merely...

In a new translation by Ronald Wilks 'Notes from Underground' (1864) is a study of a single character, 'the real man of the Russian majority', and a revelation of Dostoyevsky's...

'In this new translation one finally gets the musical whole of Dostoevsky's original' New York Times Book Review FROM THE AWARD-WINNING TRANSLATORS RICHARD PEVEAR AND LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY Dostoevsky's beautiful writing...

'Notes from Underground establishing Dostoevsky's reputation as the most innovative and challenging writer of fiction in his generation in Russia' Rowan Williams, Guardian FROM THE AWARD-WINNING TRANSLATORS RICHARD PEVEAR AND...

Edition: First English EditionCondition remarks: Condition: Good for age. Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition; lightly stained; yellowed boards. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings. Binding condition:...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. This landmark biographical work chronicles the most creatively explosive period in Fyodor Dostoevsky's life, spanning...

From the acclaimed author of The Most Dangerous Book, the true story behind the creation of another masterpiece of world literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment In the summer of...

The unnamed narrator of the novel, a former government official, has decided to retire from the world and lead a life of inactivity and contemplation. His fiercely bitter, cynical and...

Volume two of one of the greatest literary biographies of our time Joseph Frank's award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognized as the best biography of the Russian novelist in any...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few writers have inspired as passionate a critical response as Fyodor Dostoevsky,...

Constantly rebuffed from the social circles he aspires to frequent, the timid clerk Golyadkin is confronted by the sudden appearance of his double, a more brazen, confident and socially successful...

The Great Russian novelist's disturbing and compelling study of terrorism, through five young men saturated in ideology and bent on destruction 'The most innovative and challenging writer of fiction in...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few figures in world literature cast as long a shadow as Fyodor...

A young man tries to figure out the best way to live. A young woman struggles to assert herself within a regrettable marriage. A doctor attempts to befriend his most...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Some yellowing. Markings: none. Binding condition: Binding intact. Anna Dostoevsky's Dostoevsky Reminiscences offers an intimate and irreplaceable window into the...

A unique collection bringing together acknowledged masterpieces from classic authors such as Chekhov and Gogol and a rich selection from less familiar writers. From the reign of the Tsars in...

Edition: First British EditionCondition remarks: Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Very good, minimal wear with bright colours intact. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding: Firm. A deeply intimate memoir, Dostoevsky...

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: in good condition. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Appears intact. No stickers or labels visible. A work of serious literary scholarship, Dostoevsky:...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew figures in world literature loom as large or as tormented as Fyodor Dostoevsky, and J. A. T....

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A cornerstone of nineteenth-century Russian literature, Letters from the Underworld presents the...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Good, minimal wear. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding: Tight and intact. A cornerstone of Dostoevsky scholarship, Dostoyevsky: The Novel of Discord presents a...

The book titled Constance Garnett: A Heroic Life by the author Richard Garnett. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat happens when the brooding genius of Russian literature meets the compassionate social critic of Victorian England? Dostoevsky and Dickens: A Study of Literary...

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Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 800 Leo Tolstoy's most personal novel, Anna Karenina scrutinizes fundamental ethical and theological questions through the tragic story of its eponymous heroine....

Edition: First EditionCondition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: good, worn/faded. Page Condition: Good - light tanning. Markings: none. A compelling work of literary criticism and memoir studies, The Great Confession examines...

At the age of forty-one, Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) underwent a profound spiritual crisis, from which he emerged believing that he had encountered death itself. These seven compelling stories explore, in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew lives in literary history burn as fiercely as that of Fyodor Dostoevsky — epileptic, compulsive gambler, political...

The Vintage Classics Russians Series - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the most tumultuous period in its history 'One of the greatest love...

Condition remarks: Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Pages: good, previous owner. A landmark work of literary biography and criticism, Dostoevsky: The Making of a Novelist presents a comprehensive and authoritative...

A sparkling new translation of Pushkin's masterpiece Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s Russia, Pushkin's...

This revised edition has been completely re-set with an updated index and a new preface Isaiah Berlin witnessed the excesses of the Russian Revolution as a child, and in becoming...

Peter Carson's new translation of Turgenev's vivid and honest tale of generational conflict When Arkady Petrovich comes home from college, his father finds his eager, naive son changed almost beyond...

The Vintage Classics Russians Series - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the most tumultuous period in its history The great Russian 20th-century novel...

Rousseau's autobiography, giving a unique insight into the mind and life of one of the greatest thinkers of the Enlightenment Widely regarded as the first modern autobiography, The Confessions is...

An anthology of the great and influential Pre-Raphaelite texts, selected and introduced by Dinah Roe The Pre-Raphaelite Movement began in 1848, and experienced its heyday in the 1860s and 1870s....

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One of the greatest translations of all time- Scott Moncrieff's classic version of Proust, published in three stunning clothbound volumes designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith Proust's masterpiece is one of the...

Franz Kafka's 1915 novella of unexplained horror and nightmarish transformation became a worldwide classic and remains a century later one of the most widely read works of fiction in the...

Author: Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevBinding: HardbackPublished: Progress Publishers, 1982Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis collection by Ivan Turgenev features stories that explore themes of dreams, lost love,...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsA landmark anthology in the tradition of literary resistance, Pages from Tarusa: New Voices...