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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Oliver Ready (Translator)
21.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
Will I really - I mean, really - actually take an axe, start bashing her on the head, smash her skull to pieces?...Will I really slip in sticky, warm blood, force the lock, steal, tremble, hide, all soaked in blood ...axe in hand?...Lord, will I really? This new translation of Dostoevsky's 'psychologica ...Show more
Crime and Punishment (Vintage Classic Russians Series) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
24.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classic Russians Series
TRANSLATED BY RICHARD PEVEAR AND LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY. Consumed by the idea of his own special destiny, immured in poverty and deprivation, Rashkolnikov is drawn to commit a terrible crime. In the aftermath, Rashkolnikov is dogged by madness, guilt and a calculating detective, and a feverish cat-and-mous ...Show more
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Includes pictures and section on Dostoevsky's life and works The unnamed narrator of the novel, a former government official, has decided to retire from the world and lead a life of inactivity and contemplation. His fiercely bitter, cynical, and witty monologue ranges from general observations and phi ...Show more
The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Hugh Aplin (Translated by)
15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Inspired by Dostoevsky's own gambling addiction and written under pressure in order to pay off his creditors and retain his rights to his literary legacy, The Gambler is set in the casino of the fictional German spa town of Roulettenburg and follows the misfortunes of the young tutor Alexei Ivanovich. A ...Show more
The House of the Dead by DOSTOEVSKY, FYODOR
23.00 NZD
Category: Classics
The House of the DeadPrison Life in Siberiaby Fyodor DostoyevskyThe House of the Dead is a fictionalized memoir of a man serving a ten-year prison sentence for murdering his wife. Dostoyevsky drew heavily from his own four-year prison internment in a Siberian prison to draw attention to the dehumanizing ...Show more
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
17.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens Ser. | Reading Level: good
The Idiot is a novel by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published serially in the journal The Russian Messenger in 1868-9. The title is an ironic reference to the central character of the novel, Prince a young man whose goodness and open-hearted simplicity lead many of th ...Show more
The Karamazov Brothers by Fyodor Dostoevsky; A. D. P. Briggs (Introduction by); Keith Carabine (Contribution by); Constance Garnett (Translator)
8.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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 intellectual Ivan, the hot-blooded Dmitry, and the saintly novice Alyosh ...Show more
Uncle's Dream by Dostoevsky, Fyodor
15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
The small town of Mordasov is all abuzz at the arrival of Prince K-, a wealthy, ageing landowner, after an absence of several years. Maria Alexandrovna Moskalyova, a local gossip and fearsome schemer, decides that he would be an advantageous match for her daughter Zina. But in her endeavours to make suc ...Show more
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