Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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Translated by Constance Garnett, with an Introduction by A. D. P. Briggs.
As Fyodor Karamazov awaits an amorous encounter, he is violently done to death. The three sons of the old debauchee are forced to confront their own guilt or complicity. Who will own to parricide? The reckless and passionate Dmitri? The corrosive intellectual Ivan? Surely not the chaste novice monk Alyosha? The search reveals the divisions which rack
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The Brothers Karamazov. The final novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, first published as Bratya Karamazovy in 1879-80, and generally considered to be his masterpiece. It is the story of Fyodor Karamazov and his sons Alyosha, Dmitry, and Ivan. It is also a story of patricide, into the sordid unfolding of which Dostoyevsky introduces a love-hate struggle with profound psychological and spiritual implications. Throughout the whole novel there persists a search...
3) The idiot
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English
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"Just two years after completing Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky produced a second novel with a very different man at its center. In The Idiot, the saintly Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from a Swiss sanatorium and finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with wealth, power, and sexual conquest. He soon becomes entangled in a love triangle with a notorious kept woman, Nastasya, and a beautiful young girl, Aglaya. Extortion and scandal escalate...
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Raskolnikov commits murder. He then must deal both with the police, and his own guilty conscience. Determined to overreach his humanity and assert his untrammelled individual will, Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the Tsars, commits an act of murder and theft and sets into motion a story which, for its excrutiating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its profundity of characterization and vision, is almost...
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Darkly fascinating short novel depicts the struggles of a doubting, supremely alienated protagonist in a world of relative values. Seminal work introduced moral, religious, political and social themes that dominated Dostoyevsky's later masterworks. Constance Garnett's authoritative translation is reprinted here, with a new introduction. A minor official brutally scrutinizes himself and decides to go "underground," away from society. This is a strange...
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"The Adolescent" is Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1875 novel which tells the story of the life of a 19-year-old intellectual, Arkady Dolgoruky, and his conflict with his father. Arkady is the illegitimate child of the controversial and womanizing landowner Versilov and was raised by one of Versilov's serf, the pious Makar Dolgoruky. The novel's primary tension arises between Arkady and Versilov, when Arkady becomes an adult and joins Versilov's family in St....
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A faithful translation of the classic written at the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century follows the narrator's withdrawal from his life as an official to the underground, where he makes passionate and obsessive observations on social utopianism and the irrational nature of humankind.
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Editorial Progreso
Pub. Date
1977.
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Español
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"¿Por qué hay que leer Crimen y castigo ?
Pues porque Crimen y castigo es el producto de un genio cuyo mundo gira entre la muerte y la locura, porque Dostoievski era un tío que retornaba vivo de aquellos tenebrosos mundos (sus ataques) directamente para escribir historias que también puedan ser devoradas por la juventud del siglo XXI. Y porque Fiódor Mijáilovich Dostoievski ha sido el escritor que ha compuesto los análisis psicológicos más...
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Third of Dostoyevsky's five major novels. It is a powerful political tract and a profound study of a theism, depicting disarray which follows the appearence of a band of modish radicals in a small provincial town. The novel is full of buffoonery and grotesque comedy.
Pyotr Verkhovensky and Nikolai Stavrogin are the leaders of a Russian revolutionary cell. Their aim is to overthrow the Tsar, destroy society and seize power for themselves. Together...
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A collection of short fiction from one of nineteenth-century Russia's greatest novelists, the author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov.
These short stories offer a dazzling glimpse of life in the Russian Empire and penetrating portraits of unforgettable characters. In the titular story, a lonely man has a chance meeting with a sad young woman. Learning that she is in love with another, the man vows to help them reunite, while...
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Mimética
Pub. Date
2024
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Portuguese
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«Recordações da Casa dos Mortos» foi inicialmente publicado entre 1860 e 1862 e reflete uma realidade quase dantesca, onde presos políticos, prisioneiros de guerra e presos de delito comum vivem lado a lado com homens que perpetraram crimes hediondos. É um mundo à parte, uma micro-sociedade com regras próprias onde o dia a dia se reparte entre trabalhos forçados, castigos sádicos, miséria, mercado negro, álcool e pequenos expedientes de...
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Mimética
Pub. Date
2024
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Portuguese
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«Netochka Nezvanova» é o primeiro romance de Dostoiévski. A obra, iniciada em 1842, teve a sua primeira parte publicada em 1849 e foi interrompida pela prisão do autor em 23 de abril de 1849, sendo retomada apenas em 1860. Dostoiévski abandonou o livro em 1866, quando a personagem Netochka atinge a fase adulta.
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Duke Classics
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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The semiautobiographical prison account of convict Aleksandr Petrovich Goryanchikov, from the author of Crime and Punishment.
Originally published in 1862, The House of the Dead is based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's own four-year imprisonment in Siberia for his involvement in the Petrashevsky Circle. This masterpiece of Russian literature begins with a nameless narrator coming upon former convict Aleksandr Petrovich Goryanchikov in a remote Siberian...
14) El jugador
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Alianza Editorial
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Español
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No hay nada de glamour en las salas de juego de la inquietante ciudad-balneario de Ruletenburgo, ni elegantes caballeros de modales refinados, ni vaporosas damas de belleza sin igual. Ni siquiera el brillo del oro apilado. Sólo hay chusma continental: haraganes y golfillas, representantes de la sinvergonzonería europea de alta alcurnia de la época. El ansia por conseguir dinero fácil se disfraza de noble desdén... hasta que la turbación generada...
15) O Jogador
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Mimética
Pub. Date
2024
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Portuguese
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Ambientado na Alemanha, «O Jogador» tem como protagonista Alexei Ivanovitch, um jovem com um forte sentido crítico em relação ao mundo que o rodeia, mas carente de objetivos, que desenvolve uma paixão compulsiva pelo jogo (vício que acometeu o próprio escritor).
Dostoiévski expõe as personagens nas suas motivações mais íntimas, com humor e ironia, criando uma obra simultaneamente viva e profunda.
16) O Sonho do Tio
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Mimética
Pub. Date
2024
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Portuguese
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Em "O Sonho do Tio", Maria Alexandrovna tenta assegurar o futuro da filha Zina, fazendo de tudo para casá-la com um príncipe decrépito, mas rico: o Príncipe K.
Esta obra apresenta-nos a vida das elites provincianas, vazia, amoral, hipócrita, e ridiculariza a rotina, os boatos, as intrigas, as posturas baixas e sublimes das personagens.
Vladimir Nabokov não hesitou em classificar "O Sonho do Tio" como uma obra genial.
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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A towering literary giant, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was-and remains-unparalleled in his understanding of the darkness that resides in the farthest corners of the human soul. Although his shorter works have been overshadowed by his astonishing novels-Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, to name but two-his stories and novellas deserve a place among the great literary inventions of the modern era, offering insight into the themes and ideas that...
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Nouvelle revue française
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1931.
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Français
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Fédor Dostoïevski est né à Moscou en 1821 et mort à Saint-Pétersbourg en 1881. Alors que ses parents le destinent à une carrière d'ingénieur, Dostoïevski s'intéresse aux lettres et à la politique. Il entre très jeune dans un groupe socialiste, ce qui lui vaut d'être arrêté en 1849 et conduit au bagne en Sibérie. Cette peine dure jusqu'en 1954, mais elle lui apporte « une grande connaissance du peuple russe » que l'auteur utilisera...
19) El idiota
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El Libro de Bolsillo, Alianza Editorial
Pub. Date
[1996]
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Español
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Proveniente de un establecimiento de salud en Suiza donde un doctor le ha tratado una enfermedad no concretada, el joven príncipe Myshkin (persona esencialmente buena y sin ninguna malicia) regresa a Rusia sin un rublo con el fin de hallar cobijo o ayuda en algunos parientes lejanos. Su aparición e integración en la sociedad de San Petersburgo llevará, precisamente en razón de su carácter, a que todo aquel que entable relación con él, desnudado...
20) The Double
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Dover Publications
Pub. Date
1997.
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English
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Most significant of the Russian novelist's early stories (1846) offers straight-faced treatment of hallucinatory theme. Golyadkin senior is ruthlessly persecuted by Golyadkin junior, his double in almost every respect.