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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...

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...

'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...

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,...

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...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew novels in the history of world literature possess the moral grandeur and psychological ferocity of The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor...

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...

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...

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...

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...

When the rich land owner Velchaninov arrives in St Petersburg, he receives a surprise visit from an old acquaintance, Trusotsky, who has been recently widowed. His late wife, Natalia, was...

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 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...

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...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith Regarded as one of world literature's...

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...

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...

Inspired by Dostoevsky's own gambling addiction and written under pressure in order to pay off his creditors and retain his rights to his literary legacy, The Gambler is set in...

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...

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...

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: 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...

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...

Only edition in print First published in 1861, Humiliated and Insulted plunges the reader into a world of moral degradation, childhood trauma, unrequited love and irreconcil able relationships. At the...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books I am a ridiculous man. They call me mad now. That would be a promotion in rank A delusional man whose...

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: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:...

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: 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...

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...

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:...

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...

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,...

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...

A deep, complex examination of the crucial philosophical questions of human existence, from one of the world's most renowned novelists, now in the beautifully designed Penguin Clothbound series 'The mystery...

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...

HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics 'It's reactionary to believe in God in our days,' I said, 'but I am the devil, so I may...

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...

Foucault's seminal work on torture, punishment, discipline and the prison system, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time In the Middle Ages there were gaols and dungeons,...