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...

Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, The Karamazov Brothers (1880) is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is murdered; his sons--the atheist...

"Mesmerizingly good . . . the best, truest translation of Dostoevsky's masterpiece into English. It's a magnificent, almost terrifying achievement of translation, one that makes its predecessors, however worthy, seem safe and polite."...

"The political cataclysms and cultural revolutions of our century . . . confirm the status of Notes from Underground as one of the most sheerly astonishing and subversive creations of European fiction."-from the Introduction by Donald...

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 Brothers Karamazov" von Fyodor Dostoevsky ist ein komplexer Roman, der sich mit tiefen philosophischen und theologischen Fragen auseinandersetzt. Die Geschichte spielt im Russland des 19. Jahrhunderts und dreht sich um die Familie...

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...