Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 14,84 MB
Release : 2008-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0486465721
A rich and idle man confronts his dead mistress's husband in this psychological novel of duality. Powerful and accessible, it offers a captivating and revealing exploration of love, guilt, and hatred.
Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 26,22 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Russia
ISBN :
Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 18,38 MB
Release : 1988-11-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0141907827
With their penetrating psychological insight and their emphasis on human dignity, respect and forgiveness, Dostoyevsky's early short stories contain the seeds of the themes that came to his major novels. Poor Folk, the author's first great literary triumph, is the story of a tragic relationship between an impoverished copy clerk and a young seamstress, told through their passionate letters to each other. In The Landlady Dostoyevsky portrays a dreamer hero who is captivated by a curious couple and becomes their lodger. Mr Prokharchin, inspired by a true story, is a sly comedy centring on an eccentric miser, and Polzunkov is a powerful character sketch which, in common with the other tales in this volume, questions the very nature of existence.
Author : Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher : Alma Classics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,26 MB
Release : 2013-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1847493122
Presented as a series of letters between the humble copying clerk Devushkin and a distant relative of his, the young Varenka, Poor People brings to the fore the underclass of St Petersburg, who live at the margins of society in the most appalling conditions and abject poverty. As Devushkin tries to help Varenka improve her plight by selling anything he can, he is reduced to even more desperate circumstances and seeks refuge in alcohol, looking on helplessly as the object of his impossible love is taken away from him. Introducing the first in a long line of underground characters, Poor People, Dostoevsky’s first full-length work of fiction, is a poignant, tragi-comic tale which foreshadows the greatness of his later novels.
Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 22,76 MB
Release : 2015-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8026838092
This carefully crafted ebook: "Poor Folk and Other Stories (Unabridged)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Inspired by the works of Gogol, Pushkin, and Karamzin, as well as English and French authors, Poor Folk is written in the form of letters between the two main characters, Makar Devushkin and Varvara Dobroselova, who are poor second cousins. The novel showcases the life of poor people, their relationship with rich people, and poverty in general, all common themes of literary naturalism. Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. His literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmosphere of 19th-century Russia.
Author : Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 25,12 MB
Release : 2012-07-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 030782408X
This collection, unique to the Modern Library, gathers seven of Dostoevsky's key works and shows him to be equally adept at the short story as with the novel. Exploring many of the same themes as in his longer works, these small masterpieces move from the tender and romantic White Nights, an archetypal nineteenth-century morality tale of pathos and loss, to the famous Notes from the Underground, a story of guilt, ineffectiveness, and uncompromising cynicism, and the first major work of existential literature. Among Dostoevsky's prototypical characters is Yemelyan in The Honest Thief, whose tragedy turns on an inability to resist crime. Presented in chronological order, in David Magarshack's celebrated translation, this is the definitive edition of Dostoevsky's best stories.
Author : Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 33,27 MB
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1590176960
An NYRB Classics Original Winner of the 2014 PEN Translation Prize Winner of the 2014 Read Russia Prize The stakes are wildly high in Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s fantastic and blackly comic philosophical fables, which abound in nested narratives and wild paradoxes. This new collection of eleven mind-bending and spellbinding tales includes some of Krzhizhanovsky’s most dazzling conceits: a provincial journalist who moves to Moscow finds his existence consumed by the autobiography of his room’s previous occupant; the fingers of a celebrated pianist’s right hand run away to spend a night alone on the city streets; a man’s lifelong quest to bite his own elbow inspires both a hugely popular circus act and a new refutation of Kant. Ordinary reality cracks open before our eyes in the pages of Autobiography of a Corpse, and the extraordinary spills out.
Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 42,52 MB
Release : 2021-01-23
Category :
ISBN :
Although Russian fiction master Fyodor Dostoyevsky is best known for epic, sprawling novels that detail psychological and philosophical problems in minute detail, his more concise work is also remarkable in its scope and depth. This collection of stories will please fans of classic Russian literature and Dostoyevsky buffs who are interested in sampling the author's forays into another format.
Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 45,14 MB
Release : 2004-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780060726461
The shorter works of one of the world's greatest writers, including The Gambler and Notes from Underground 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. The Gambler chronicles Dostoevsky's own addiction, which he eventually overcame. Many have argued that Notes from Underground contains several keys to understanding the themes of the longer novels, such as Crime and Punishment and The Idiot. Great Short Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky includes: Notes from Underground The Gambler A Disgraceful Affair The Eternal Husband The Double White Nights A Gentle Creature The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
Author : Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher : Pushkin Collection
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,2 MB
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1782276742
A stunning new edition featuring fresh translations of six of this classic Russian writer's most thrilling short stories in a beautiful Pushkin Collection edition. This vivid collection of new translations by Nicolas Pasternak Slater and Maya Slater illuminates Dostoevsky's dazzling versatility as a writer. His remarkable short fiction swings from wickedly sharp humour to gripping psychological intensity, from cynical social mockery to moments of unexpected tenderness. The stories in this collection range from impossible fantasy to scorching satire. A civil servant finds a new passion for his work when he's swallowed alive by a crocodile. A struggling writer stumbles on a cemetery where the dead still talk to each other. An arrogant but well-intentioned gentleman provokes an uproar at an aide's wedding, and in the marital bed. A young boy finds unexpected salvation on a cold and desolate Christmas Eve.
