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A major new translation of one of Dostoyevsky's four great novels Pyotr and Stavrogin are the leaders of a Russian revolutionary cell. Their aim is to overthrow the Tsar, destroy...

'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...

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...

Author: Fyodor DostoevskyBinding: HardbackPublished: Penguin Classics, 2008Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCrime and Punishment is a psychological novel that explores the moral dilemmas faced by Raskolnikov,...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky's powerful meditation on faith, meaning and morality, The Brothers Karamazov is translated with an introduction and notes by David McDuff in Penguin Classics. When brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov...

Joseph Frank's award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognized as the best biography of the writer in any language--and one of the greatest literary biographies of the past half-century. Now Frank's...

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...

A collection of some of Dostoyevsky's finest short stories With their penetrating psychological insight and their emphasis on human dignity, respect and forgiveness, Dostoyevsky's early short stories contain the seeds...

Dostoevsky's most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between 19th- and 20th- century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most...

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...

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...

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:...

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...

A new selection of seven of Dostoyevsky's best short stories, translated by Ronald Meyer The Gambler and Other Stories is Fyodor Dostoyevsky's collection of one novella and six short stories...

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...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: price clipped dj. In the turbulent social landscape of nineteenth-century Russia, a young man consumed by ambition, illegitimacy, and a desperate...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears; price clipped. Page Condition: Yellowed with some signs of aging. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Intact. A landmark of nineteenth-century Russian...

A fictionalised account of the time Dostoyevsky spent in a Siberian prison camp for his part in a political conspiracy In January 1850 Dostoyevsky was sent to a remote Siberian...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears; price clipped. Page Condition: yellowed with signs of aging. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Intact. A landmark work of literary...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: N/A (paperback). Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear. Worn but not faded - cover still in good condition. Few works in world literature...

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...

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: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Binding poor. Internally sound. Plates intact. Few novels in the Western canon match...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: good, minor wear, slight yellowing; appears still have protective covering. Page Condition: Good — pages appear clean. Markings: No visible markings. Binding condition: Good. A...

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...

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...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFew writers have charted the abyss of the human soul with the relentless precision of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Malcolm V. Jones's Dostoyevsky:...

Four modern classics by the great South African writer, J. M. Coetzee, re-released with stylish new covers and accompanied by introductions from some of Australia's brightest writing talents. History is...

An affecting book of essays from this Nobel Prize-winning author Essayist and poet Joseph Brodsky was one of the most penetrating voices of the twentieth century. This prize-winning collection of...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings. What is the rightful place of ideas in fiction — and has the novel abandoned...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Firm binding, no loose pages. Few figures in world literature cast as long...

Join Dostoevsky on his tumultuous honeymoon in this hypnotic cult classic , introduced by Susan Sontag.Why was I reading this book now, in a railway-carriage, beneath a wavering, flickering, electric...

Part of the Penguin Classics' fresh new editions of Tolstoy's major works - including Antony Briggs' stunning new translation of War and Peace In 1851, at the age of twenty-two,...

The best of Gogol in a single volume - his most famous drama and the most brilliant of his short stories. Author, dramatist and satirist, Nikolay Gogol (1809-1852) deeply influenced...

The searingly honest, spiritual autobiography of Rossia's greatest novelist, written during a period of emotional crisis Describing Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world, A Confession (1879) is...

A Russian heir to Charles Dickens, Leskov is one of the great, underrated voices of nineteenth-century Russia An outsider from the literary establishment of his day, Nikolai Leskov is one...

The Restless Classics edition of Chekhov: Stories for Our Time presents a must-have collection by the great Russian author who captured humanity in all its complexity, and reintroduces Chekhov as...

Heidegger's influence in the twentieth century probably outstrips that of any other philosopher, at least in the so-called Continental tradition. The 'revolution' Heidegger brought about with his compelling readings of...

Author: Victor Shklovsky; Olga Shartse (trans.)Binding: HardbackPublished: Progress Publishers, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsVictor Shklovsky's Lev Tolstoy presents a compelling and unconventional examination of the iconic Russian...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Text: English. Slightly crushed spine - otherwise internally sound, clean text. A suffocating portrait of...

Edition: 17th ed.Condition remarks: Condition: Fair to Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, with some discolouration and light surface marks on the dust jacket. Page Condition: Yellowed, consistent with age, some foxing. Markings:...

Mad, lascivious, sadistic and ridiculous, the provincial schoolteacher Peredonov torments his students and has hallucinatory fantasies about acts of savagery and degradation, yet to everyone else he is an upstanding...