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Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Larissa Volokhonsky (Annotations by, Translator); Richard Pevear (Annotations by, Translator)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
«Besy» - odin iz spornykh romanov Dostoevskogo. Odni vidyat v nem prorocheskiy pamflet. Drugie - literaturnyy poligon dlya ispytaniya filosofskikh i sotsial'nykh idey. Tret'i - izoshchrennyy politicheskiy triller, ostroaktual'nyy dlya rossiyskoy zhizni konflikt mezhdu «liberalami» i «patriotami», mezhdu ...Show more
Demons - Introduction by Joseph Frank by Joseph Frank (Introduction by); Fyodor Dostoevsky; Richard Pevear (Translator); Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Set in mid 19th-century Russia, Demons examines the effect of a charismatic but unscrupulous self-styled revolutionary leader on a group of credulous followers.Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horrified Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a "novel-pamphlet" in ...Show more
Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Richard Pevear (Translator); Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
Category: Classic Fiction
Presenting the apology and confession of a minor mid-19th-century Russian official, this title offers a half-desperate, half-mocking political critique and an account of man's breakaway from society and descent 'underground'.
The Adolescent by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Richard Pevear (Translator); Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
The illegitimate son of a landowner, Arkady Dolgoruky was raised by foster parents and tutors, and has scarcely ever seen his father, Versilov, and his mother, Versilov's peasant common-law wife. Arkady goes to Petersburg to meet this "accidental family" and to confront the father who dominates his imag ...Show more
The Double and the Gambler by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky ; Pevear, Richard (Translator) , Volokhonsky, Larissa (Translator)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics
The award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have given us the definitive version of Fyodor Dostoevsky's strikingly original short novels, "The Double "and "The Gambler.The Double "is a surprisingly modern hallucinatory nightmare-foreshadowing Kafka and Sartre-in which a minor of ...Show more
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Richard Pevear (Translator); Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
In The Idiot, a saintly man, Prince Myshkin, is thrust into the heart of a society more concerned with wealth, power, and sexual conquest than the ideals of Christianity. Myshkin soon finds himself at the center of a violent love triangle in which a notorious woman and a beautiful young girl become riva ...Show more
The Idiot by Henry Carlisle; Richard Pevear (Introduction by, Translator); Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator); Fyodor Dostoevsky
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
A classic by a Russian master Prince Myshkin, the idiot, is an almost comically innocent Christ figure in a land of sinners, one whose faith in beauty contrasts sharply with that of his society's.
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