"Notes from Underground" (1864) is a study of a single character, 'the real man of the Russian majority', and a revelation of Dostoyevsky's own deepest beliefs. One of his best critics has said of the first part that it forms his 'most utterly nakedpages. Never afterwards was he so fully and openly to reveal the inmost recesses, unmeant for ...
The stories in this volume demonstrate Dostoyevsky's genius for fusing caricature, irony and the grotesque to create a powerful dark humour. "The Gambler" is a breathtaking portrayal of an intense and futile obsession. Based on Dostoyevsky's own experience of financial desperation and the compulsive desire to win money, it focuses on the ...
This dictionary offers the intermediate user thousands of illustrative phrases, with specific emphasis on modern idioms and colloquial usage, 70,000 words and phrases, and over 120,000 translations, extensive coverage of common abbreviations and acronyms, and grammatical information on points of style and usage.
In this almost documentary account of his own experiences of penal servitude in Serbia, Dostoevsky describes the physical and mental suffering of the convicts, the squalor and the degradation, in relentless detail. The inticate procedure whereby the men strip for the bath without removing their ten-pound leg-fetters is an extraordinary tour de ...
This second edition of the acclaimed Pocket Oxford Russian Dictionary has been completely revised to provide the most up-to-date coverage of the general vocabulary of contemporary Russian and English. Drawing on the acclaimed Oxford Russian Dictionary (1993) for new and updated material, it includes: * Over 70,000 words and phrases * Specific ...
With approximately 180,000 words and phrases and 290,000 translations, this dictionary amalgamates and updates "The Oxford English-Russian Dictionary" and "The Oxford Russian-English Dictionary". New material includes more than 5000 words and phrases, reflecting changes in both languages since the appearance of the parent works, and the ...
Each half of this convenient pocket dictionary contains 30,000 words encountered in general, technical, colloquial, and idiomatic areas of the language. The Russian-English section is based on the authoritative Oxford Russian-English Dictionary, and the English-Russian section is drawn from smaller Oxford dictionaries and grammars published in the ...
The Oxford Russian Desk Dictionary now incorporates the most up-to-date vocabulary to reflect the evolution of both the Russian and English languages, including new words created by recent changes in the former Soviet Union such as CD ROM, laptop computer, shelf life. It is the most comprehensive compact Russian dictionary, providing over 70,000 ...
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date Published: 1969
Description: Cvr Art By Redon. Good++ No Jacket. Massmarket Paperback. Three stories in one. Light edgewear, rubbing to rear cover. Pages starting to darken. Clean text except for page 29, two lines underlined. Cover shows a detail from Redon's "Within the Dream". read more
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