Books with author Feodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov is considered to be one of the greatest novels in Western Literature. Published in 1880, Fyodor Dostoyevsky tackles some of the most important concepts in philosophy and religion; the existence of God, morality, free will, reason, doubt, and faith. Readers such as Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud found his work extremely significant. A great story that weaves between the material and the spiritual, The Brothers Karamazov is one that should be in everyone’s reading collection.

The Brothers Karamazov is considered to be one of the greatest novels in Western Literature. Published in 1880, Fyodor Dostoyevsky tackles some of the most important concepts in philosophy and religion; the existence of God, morality, free will, reason, doubt, and faith. Readers such as Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud found his work extremely significant. A great story that weaves between the material and the spiritual, The Brothers Karamazov is one that should be in everyone’s reading collection.

The Brothers Karamazov is considered to be one of the greatest novels in Western Literature. Published in 1880, Fyodor Dostoyevsky tackles some of the most important concepts in philosophy and religion; the existence of God, morality, free will, reason, doubt, and faith. Readers such as Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud found his work extremely significant. A great story that weaves between the material and the spiritual, The Brothers Karamazov is one that should be in everyone’s reading collection.

The Brothers Karamazov is considered to be one of the greatest novels in Western Literature. Published in 1880, Fyodor Dostoyevsky tackles some of the most important concepts in philosophy and religion; the existence of God, morality, free will, reason, doubt, and faith. Readers such as Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud found his work extremely significant. A great story that weaves between the material and the spiritual, The Brothers Karamazov is one that should be in everyone’s reading collection.

The Brothers Karamazov is considered to be one of the greatest novels in Western Literature. Published in 1880, Fyodor Dostoyevsky tackles some of the most important concepts in philosophy and religion; the existence of God, morality, free will, reason, doubt, and faith. Readers such as Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud found his work extremely significant. A great story that weaves between the material and the spiritual, The Brothers Karamazov is one that should be in everyone’s reading collection.

The Brothers Karamazov is considered to be one of the greatest novels in Western Literature. Published in 1880, Fyodor Dostoyevsky tackles some of the most important concepts in philosophy and religion; the existence of God, morality, free will, reason, doubt, and faith. Readers such as Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud found his work extremely significant. A great story that weaves between the material and the spiritual, The Brothers Karamazov is one that should be in everyone’s reading collection.

Prince Myshkin, the title character, has finally returned to St. Petersburg after several years of exile in a Swiss sanitarium. As he resumes life in regular society, he is quickly drawn into a elaborate web of relationships driven by money, power and romance. Although his actions are well-intentioned, the Prince finds himself caught in a love triangle between the beautiful young Aglaia and Nastasya, a notorious kept woman. As the tale unfolds, others take advantage of the Prince s altruistic nature and he is ever more deeply entwined in the complexities of the society around him. He survives an attempt on his life, but must answer to Aglaia and Nastasya who force him to choose between them. In the end, Myshkin s honesty, goodness, and integrity are shown to be unequal to the moral emptiness of those around him.

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 investigator, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. Only Sonya, a downtrodden prostitute, can offer the chance of redemption.

This carefully crafted ebook: "Crime and Punishment (The Unabridged Garnett Translation)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. This is the version based on the Unabridged Garnett Translation. Crime and Punishment is a novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, first published in 1866. It is the second of Dostoyevsky's full-length novels following his return from ten years of exile in Siberia. Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in St. Petersburg who formulates and executes a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her cash. Raskolnikov argues that with the pawnbroker's money he can perform good deeds to counterbalance the crime, while ridding the world of a worthless vermin. He also commits this murder to test his own hypothesis that some people are naturally capable of such things, and even have the right to do them. Several times throughout the novel, Raskolnikov justifies his actions by connecting himself mentally with Napoleon Bonaparte, believing that murder is permissible in pursuit of a higher purpose. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky ( 1821 – 1881) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and philosopher. Dostoyevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the context of the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmosphere of 19th-century Russia. Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest and most prominent psychologists in world literature.

Notes from the Underground presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator, who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg. The first part of the story is told in monologue form, and attacks emerging Western philosophy. The second part of the book describes certain events that appear to be destroying and sometimes renewing the underground man, who acts as a first person, unreliable narrator and anti-hero.Notes from the Underground, is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Notes is considered by many to be one of the first existentialist novels. The narration by the Underground Man is laden with ideological allusions and complex conversations regarding the political climate of the time period. Using his fiction as a weapon of ideological discourse, Dostoevsky challenges the ideologies of his time, mainly nihilism and rational egoism. The seminal influence of the work has seen a wide impact on subsequent various works in the fields of philosophy, literature, and film.This cloth-bound book includes a Victorian inspired dust-jacket, and is limited to 100 copies.