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The two years before he wrote Crime and Punishment (1866) had been bad ones for Dostoyevsky. His wife and brother had died, the magazine he and his brother had started, Epoch, collapsed under its load of debt, and he was threatened with debtor's prison. With an advance that he managed to wangle for an unwritten novel, he fled to Wiesbaden, hoping to win enough at the roulette table to get himself out of debt. Instead, he lost all his money, he...

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Notes from the Underground is one of the first, and finest, 'existential' pieces of literature. Published around 1864, the book is a commentary on the human condition as it really is contrasted against various philosophical systems then (and now) under discussion, such as collectivism and nihilism. The book has been reprinted countless times. What makes this edition unique is that it endeavors to provide primary sources so...

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The Idiot is a novel by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. After his great portrayal of a guilty man in Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky set out in The Idiot to portray a man of pure innocence. The title is an ironic reference to the central character of the novel, Prince (Knyaz) Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, a young man whose goodness, open-hearted simplicity and guilelessness lead many of the more worldly characters he encount...

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Notes from Undergroundalso translated as"Notes from the Underground" or "Letters from the Underworld"is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky, and is considered by many to be one of the first existentialist novels. Notes from the Underground is a fictional, first-person confession told by a hateful, hyper-conscious man living underground who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg.The first part of the story is told in monologue fo...

Crime and Punishment is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky.Crime and Punishment is considered the first great novel of his "mature" period of writing.Since its publication, it has been acclaimed as one of the supreme achievements in world literature. A sensation in its day, Crime and Punishment has left an indelible stamp on the world of literature. An impoverished ex-student, "Rodion Raskolnikov", who formulates a plan to kill an...

The Brothers Karamazov also translated as The Karamazov Brothers, is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky.The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel set in 19th-century Russia, that enters deeply into the ethical debates of God, free will, and morality. It is a spiritual, theological drama of moral struggles concerning faith, doubt, judgment, and reason, set against a modernizing Russia, with a plot which rev...

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