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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...

A new translation of Dostoyevsky's great novel of suffering and sickness Inspired by an image of Christ's suffering, Dostoyevsky set out to create a protagonist with \"a truly beautiful soul\"...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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:...

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...

Crime and Punishment (1866) is the story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes by his action to set himself outside and above society. A novel...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 her memoirs, Simone de Beavoir created a remarkable portrait of a twentieth-century woman's struggle for independence A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. This compact volume brings together two of Fyodor Dostoevsky's most spiritually charged...

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 best translation of Crime...

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...

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 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,...

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...

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...

'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...

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...

Dostoyevsky's great novel of suffering and sickness, now in Penguin Clothbound Classics Inspired by an image of Christ's suffering, Dostoyevsky set out to create a protagonist with 'a truly beautiful...

'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...

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...

Author: Stephen CoulterBinding: HardbackPublished: Jonathan Cape, 1960Condition:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jacket price clipped and has general wear and tear with some small corners missing...

A new translation by Tony Briggs of Tolstoy's last major novel Resurrection (1899) tells the story of a nobleman's attempt to redeem the suffering his youthful philandering inflicted on a...

Penguin Classics relaunch The award-winning new translation of the great Russian novel.Leo Tolstoy (Author) Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 in the Tula province. He studied at the University of...

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...

Written close to the end of the great writer's life, Fyodor Dostoevsky's short story The Dream of a Ridiculous Man tells of a transformation of the heart and a journey...

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...

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...

Part biography, part detective story- the extraordinary life of the eccentric writer Frederick Baron Corvo One summer afternoon A.J.A. Symons is handed a peculiar novel called Hadrian the Seventh and,...

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...

A beautiful new Clothbound edition of Baldwin's ground-breaking novel, which established him as one of the great American writers of his time David, a young American in 1950s Paris, is...

A new selection of Swift's witty, acerbic and polemical prose The political dilemma of Ireland; the state of faith in England; the charms of the Beggar's Opera; the importance of...

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...

The second volume in Simone de Beauvoir's celebrated autobiography, recalls her formative years in Paris when she began to emerge as a public figure First published in 1960, The Prime...