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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 ...
Isaac Babel stories often address the conflict between his desire to remain true to his Jewish roots and his desire to be free of them. This conflict is reflected in the dual nature of the stories collected here. While many are set in the world of the Russian Jews; others are from the cycle of stories entitled "Red Cavalry," which is based on ...
Dostoyevsky's first short novel (1846) introduced one of the major preoccupations of his writing career: a delineation of the inner lives of the poor and downtrodden. These themes are also integral to his often powerful short stories.
Her first book, compiled from smuggled texts, the publication of which led to the international outcry that occasioned her freedom, is available here in revised translations based on definitive Russian texts supplied by the author after her release.
Throughout his life Isaac Babel was torn by opposing forces, by the desire both to remain faithful to his Jewish roots and yet to be free of them. This duality of vision infuses his work with a powerful energy from the earliest tales including 'Old Shloyme' and 'Childhood', which affirm his Russian-Jewish childhood, to the relatively non-Jewish ...
A tale of experience, past and present. In the "ur-vind", or primordial attic, are stored not only relics from the story-teller's past, but also memories of those who inhabited the house where he was brought up. The "ur-vind" is also the cosmic wind, and the story-teller's name - Daniel Urwind.
In the winter of 1854 Tolstoy, then an officer in the Russian army, arranged to be transferred to the besieged town of Sebastopol. Wishing to see at first hand the action of what would become known as the Crimean War, he was spurred on by a fierce patriotism, but also by an equally fierce desire to alert the authorities to appalling conditions in ...
A book that follows Dostoyevsky through every stage of his life, from childhood to his imprisonment in Siberia and also relates the intellectual drama of late 19th-century Russian life and Dostoyevsky's part in it. 28 pages of black-and-white photographs.
Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police ...
In the 1930s, Bo Carpelan found mention of his great-uncle Axel in a biography of the composer Jean Sibelius. This friendship is the genesis of Carpelan's fictional diary of Axel's dual obsession with music and with a man who, unlike him, had enough confidence in his creativity to compose his own. In Carpelan's novel, set during Finland's struggle ...
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 ...
Tua Forsstrom is a visionary Finland-Swedish poet who has become Finland's most celebrated contemporary poet. Her breakthrough came when she was still only 30 with her sixth collection, "Snow Leopard", which brought her international recognition, with its English translation by David McDuff winning a Poetry Book Society Translation Award. "I ...
This is one of 1000 limited-edition copies of "Crime and Punishment" published to mark the sixtieth anniversary of Penguin Classics, with a special jacket created by Fuel. Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to ...
In 1999, Queen's Gate, Pia Tafdrup's ninth book, won Scandinavia's most prestigious literary award, the Nordic Council Literature Prize. Now available in English in a lovely rendition by David McDuff, English language readers can experience this outstanding poet's celebrated collection. "From water you have come, " writes Tafdrup, creating her own ...
This new translation does full justice to Turgenev's delicate style and the elegiac emotion of the stories. Complete with extensive notes which provide the necessary context for a full understanding of two of his finest and most heartfelt works.
This is one of 1000 limited-edition copies of "The Idiot" published to mark the sixtieth anniversary of Penguin Classics, with a special jacket created by one of the most influential designers of our time, Ron Arad. Inspired by an image of Christ's suffering, Dostoyevsky set out to create a protagonist with "a truly beautiful soul" and to trace ...
"Homecoming" includes in their entirety three collections of Bo Carpelan's poems which represent the achievement maturity of one of Finland's greatest poets, whose collection of verse appeared in 1946. "The Cool Day" (1961), "The Courtyard" (1969) and "Years Like Leaves" (1989) are combined in "Homecoming", translated by David McDuff, who also ...
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881) was a Russian novelist and writer of fiction whose works, including Crime and Punishment (1866) and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), have had a profound and lasting effect on intellectual thought and world literature. His literary output explores human psychology in the troubled political, social and ...
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