BOOKS by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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1	Idiot more books like this by Fyodor M Dostoevsky " My intention is to portray a truly beautiful soul." -- Dostoevsky Despite the harsh circumstances besetting his own life -- object poverty, incessant gambling, the death of his firstborn child -- Dostoevsky produced a second masterpiece, The Idiot, just two years after completing Crime and Punishment. In it, a saintly man, Prince Myshkin, is ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Crime and punishment more books like this by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment 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 of fearful tension, physical, and psychological, it is pervaded by Dostoevsky's sinister evocation of St Petersburg, yet in the life of its gloomy tenements and drink-shops provides moments ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.39! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Notes from Underground more books like this by Fyodor M Dostoevsky As well as the text of the novel, this edition includes a selection of Dostoevsky's letters, writings from his notebooks and an account of a formative visit to the west.There is also a collection of critical essays by both Western and Russian critics. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The brothers Karamazov more books like this by Fyodor Dostoyevsky THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV states and exemplifies Dostoevsky's most urgent concerns as a writer: the struggle between faith and the lack of it, the nature of love and hate, the question of God's existence, and generational conflict. The latter is represented in his novel by the father, Fyodor Karamazov, and his four very different sons: the saintly ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.69! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Notes from the Underground more books like this by Fyodor M Dostoevsky Dostoevsky's Underground Man is a composite of the tormented clerk and the frustrated dreamer of his earlier stories, but his "Notes from the Underground" is a precursor of his great later novels and their central concern with the nature of free will. Initially musing on his "sickness" and the detested notion of self-interest, the maladjusted and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Notes from the Underground more books like this by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 'I am a sick man...I am a wicked man.' With this sentence Dostoevsky began a work which marks the frontier not only between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, but between two centuries' visions of the self. For the unnamed narrator of Notes From Underground is a multiplicity of selves, each at war with the others - all at war with ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.90! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Possessed more books like this by Fyodor M. Dostoevsky During a time of revolution, Nikolay Stavrogin, a brilliant but alienated young aristocrat, becomes a criminal, a degenerate, and an exploiter of women because of his inability to feel genuine emotion. Dostoyevsky hoped, in this novel, to rally the Russian upper classes to turn away from their own nihilistic self-absorption and identify with the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.52! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Notes from Underground; The Double more books like this by Fyodor M Dostoevsky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Jessie Coulson (Translator) "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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.50! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Demons more books like this by Fyodor M Dostoevsky, Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator), Richard Pevear (Translator) During a time of revolution, Nikolay Stavrogin, a brilliant but alienated young aristocrat, becomes a criminal, a degenerate, and an exploiter of women because of his inability to feel genuine emotion. Dostoyevsky hoped, in this novel, to rally the Russian upper classes to turn away from their own nihilistic self-absorption and identify with the ... see all copies from $4.07! new only from $10.35! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Devils more books like this by Fyodor M Dostoevsky, Michael R Katz (Translator) "Devils", also known in English as "The Possessed" and "The Demons", was first published in 1871-2. The third of Dostoevsky's five major novels, it is at once a powerful political tract and a profound study of atheism, depicting the disarray which follows the appearance of a band of modish radicals in a small provincial town. Dostoevsky compares ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.70! \| SVS
11 view cover	The idiot more books like this by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Into a compellingly real portrait of nineteenth-century Russian society, Dostoevsky introduces his ideal hero, the saintly Prince Myshkin. The tensions subsequently unleashed by the hero's innocence, truthfulness, and humility betray the inadequacy of his moral idealism and disclose the spiritual emptiness of a society that cannot accommodate him. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.93! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Double more books like this by Fyodor M Dostoevsky There is a great doppelganger tradition in literature, but there is nothing is quite like Dostoevsky's "The Double. "There is a modern quality in this Russian nightmare, where much of Dostoevsky shares qualities with Dickens and Tolstoy, and reminds readers of the work of Kafka or Sartre. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The House of the Dead more books like this by Fyodor M Dostoevsky, Walter Covell (Read by) In January, 1850, Dostoyevsky was sent to a remote Siberian prison camp for his part in a political conspiracy. The four years he spent there, startlingly re-created in "The House of the Dead", were the most agonizing of his life. In this fictionalized account, he recounts his soul-destroying incarceration through the cool, detached tones of his ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The brothers Karamazov; a novel in four parts and an epilogue more books like this by Fyodor Dostoyevsky When brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov is murdered, the lives of his sons are changed irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide; Ivan, the intellectual, whose mental tortures drive him to breakdown; the spiritual Alyosha, who tries to heal the family's rifts; and ... see all copies from $7.50! new only from $7.50! \| SVS
15 view cover	The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky more books like this by Fyodor M Dostoevsky, David Magarshack (Translator) Many of Dostoevski's stories concentrate on decisive moments in the meagre existences of the poor and downtrodden. His four-year sentence to hard labor in Siberia, the result of his revolutionary activities, developed in Dostoevski an appreciation for the inner life of the common man that he never lost, and that is reflected in nearly all of his ... see all copies from $6.94! new only from $6.94! \| SVS
16 view cover	The Gambler more books like this by Fyodor M Dostoevsky Based on Dostoevsky's own troubled experiences at the gaming tables, The Gambler is a brilliant and telling portrayal of a man crippled by the overwhelming powers of addiction and obsession. Stationed in the house of a tyrannical Russian general, Aleksei Ivanovich seeks solace in the hypnotic turn of the roulette wheel. Yet what begins as an idle ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The possessed more books like this by Fyodor Dostoyevsky TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN BY CONSTANCE GARNETT see all copies from $1.99! new only from $21.99! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The Idiot: 4 more books like this by Fyodor M Dostoevsky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, David Magarshack (Translator) 'The chief thing is that they all need him' -thus Dostoyevsky described Prince Myshkin, the hero of perhaps his most remarkable novel. As the still, radiant center of a plot whose turbulent action is extraordinary even for Dostoyevsky, Myshkin succeeds in dominating through sheer force a personality a cast of characters who vividly and violently ... see all copies from $1.99! first editions
19 view cover	The Adolescent more books like this by Fyodor M Dostoevsky This superb new translation—never before published—of one of Dostoevsky’s major novels comes from the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. The Adolescent (originally published in English as A Raw Youth ) is markedly different in tone from Dostoevsky’s other masterpieces. It is told from the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.49! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants: From the Notes of an Unknown more books like this by Fyodor M Dostoevsky, Ignat Avsey (Translator) Summoned to the country estate of his wealthy uncle Colonel Yegor Rostanev, the young student Sergey Aleksandrovich finds himself thrown into a startling bedlam. For as he soon sees, his meek and kind-hearted uncle is wholly dominated by a pretentious and despotic pseudo-intellectual named Opiskin, a charlatan who has ingratiated himself with ... see all copies from $4.13! new only from $7.00! \| SVS
21 view cover	The grand inquisitor more books like this by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Dostoevsky's portrayal of the Catholic Church during the Inquisition is a plea for the power of pure faith, and a critique of the tyrannies of institutionalized religion. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.06! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Great Short Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky more books like this by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 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 ... see all copies from $5.70! new only from $5.70! \| SVS
23 view cover	The house of the dead more books like this by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Based on the four years he spent in a Siberian prison camp, Dostoevsky presents the lives and tales of his fellow convicts in a vivid documentary style. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.76! \| first editions
24 view cover	The Gospel in Dostoyevsky: Selections from His Works more books like this by Bruderhof, Fyodor M Dostoevsky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky Newcomers will find in these pages a rich, accessible sampling. Dostoyevsky devotees will be pleased to find some of the writer's deepest, most compelling passages in one volume. Full-page woodcuts by master engraver Fritz Eichenberg enhance the book. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.50! \| first editions
25 view cover	The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts and an Epilogue more books like this by Fyodor M Dostoevsky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, David McDuff (Introduction by) This translation replaces David Magarshack's version, first published in 1958. This edition includes explanatory notes. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.79!

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