Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment is one of the world's first psychological thrillers. A mesmerizing detective story with an intriguing and multifarious central character, Crime and Punishment/i hinges...

The Idiot

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A Russian prince returns to Saint Petersburg after a long absence in Switzerland, where he was undergoing treatment for epilepsy. On the train he meets and befriends a man of low origins. This man becomes the...

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel that enters deeply into the ethical debates of God, free will, and morality. It is a spiritual drama of moral struggles concerning faith, doubt, and...

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Driven by intellectual arrogance Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov carries out the perfect murder. But while he evades the police, can he escape the torment of his own guilt?

Notes from the Underground

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Notes from the Underground is Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1864 masterpiece following the ranting, slightly unhinged memoir of an isolated, anonymous civil servant. A dramatic monologue in which the narrator leaves himself...

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Dostoyevsky's penetrating study of a man for whom the distinction between right and wrong disappears, and a riveting portrait of guilt and retribution....

The Idiot

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Inspired by an image of Christ's suffering, Fyodor Dostoyevsky set out to portray "a truly beautiful soul" colliding with the brutal reality of contemporary society. Returning to St. Petersburg from a Swiss...

The House of the Dead

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

‘Here was the house of the living dead, a life like none other upon earth’ In January 1850 Dostoyevsky was sent to a remote Siberian prison camp for his part in a political conspiracy. The four years he...

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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The Grand Inquisitor

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Considered to be one of the most crucial passages and subplots to Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel "The Brothers Karamazov", this story is a parable told by Ivan to his younger brother Alyosha, a novice monk, about...

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

One of the world’s greatest novels, Crime and Punishment is the story of a murder and its consequences—an unparalleled tale of suspense set in the midst of nineteenth-century Russia’s troubled transition...

The Gambler

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Gambler is a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky about a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian General. The novella reflects Dostoevsky's own addiction to roulette, which was in more ways than...

White Nights & Other Stories

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

White Nights, a sentimental story from the diary of a dreamer, is told in first person by a nameless narrator who lives alone in St. Petersburg and suffers from loneliness and the inability to stop thinking....

The Idiot

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky & Henry Carlisle

A classic by a Russian master

Prince Myshkin, the idiot, is an almost comically innocent Christ figure in a land of sinners, one whose faith in beauty contrasts sharply with that of his society's.

A Disgraceful Affair

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A towering literary giant, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was—and remains—unparalleled in his understanding of the darkness that resides in the farthest corners of the human soul. Although his shorter works have been...

The Dream of the Ridiculous Man

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The first-rate collection includes "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man," "Bobok," "The Christmas Tree and the Wedding," and five other short masterpieces.

A Disgraceful Affair

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A towering literary giant, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was—and remains—unparalleled in his understanding of the darkness that resides in the farthest corners of the human soul. Although his shorter works have been...

White Nights

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The short works of Dostoevsky exist in the very large shadow of his astonishing longer novels, but they too are among literature's most revered works and offer keys to understanding the themes in his longer...