A seemingly well-reasoned justification of murder comes to pieces as the murderer is forced to confront the true nature of his crime. After much thought Rodion Raskolnikov determines that certain special people deserve the right to step...

Crime & Punishment von Dostoevsky, Fyodor

"Notes from Under the Floorboards" von Fyodor Dostoevsky ist eine Neuübersetzung des berühmten Romans "Aufzeichnungen aus dem Kellerloch" (auch bekannt als "Aufzeichnungen aus dem Untergrund"). Der Roman gilt als eines der ersten Werke...

The House of the Dead recounts the story of Alexander Goryanchikov, a gentleman who is sent to a prison colony in Siberia for killing his wife. Largely ignored at first by his fellow inmates due to his noble blood, he gradually settles...

The House of the Dead / The Gambler von Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Dostoevsky's most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in...

In 1880 Dostoevsky completed The Brothers Karamazov, the literary effort for which he had been preparing all his life. Compelling, profound, complex, it is the story of a patricide and of the four sons who each had a motive for murder:...

Russische Klassiker der Literatur in Form von Lektüren - jetzt kennenlernen! Russische Weltliteratur durch adaptierte Texte kennenlernen Weiße Nächte handelt von einer romantischen Liebesgeschichte Insgesamt 2300 Wörter basierend auf dem...

The Idiot (1868), written under the appalling personal circumstances Dostoevsky endured while travelling in Europe, not only reveals the author's acute artistic sense and penetrating psychological insight, but also affords his most...

Dostoevsky's disturbing and groundbreaking novella appears in this new annotated edition with an Introduction by Charles Guignon and Kevin Aho. An analogue of Guignon's widely praised Introduction to his 1993 edition of...

This new edition presents The Grand Inquisitor together with the preceding chapter, Rebellion, and the extended reply offered by Dostoevsky in the following sections, entitled The Russian Monk. By showing how Dostoevsky frames the Grand...

In June 1862, Dostoevsky left Petersburg on his first excursion to Western Europe. Ostensibly making the trip to consult Western specialists about his epilepsy, he also wished to see firsthand the source of the Western ideas he believed...