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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
'The old woman was merely a sickness . . .it wasn't a human being I killed, it was a principle!'A troubled young man commits the perfect crime - the murder of a vile pawnbroker whom no one will miss. Raskolnikov is desperate for money, but convinces himself that his motive for the murder is to benefit m ...Show more
Devils by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction
As ideological ferment grips Russia, a small group of revolutionaries, led by Pyotr Verkhovensky and inspired by Nikolai Stavrogin, plan to spread destruction and anarchy throughout the country. Morally bankrupt, they are prepared to use whatever means necessary to achieve their goal, including murder a ...Show more
Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Classic Fiction
This is an official tie-in edition to accompany Richard Ayoade's brilliant new film based on Dostoyevsky's deliciously dark and slyly funny novel. The Double stars Oscar nominee Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network) and Mia Wasikowska (Jane Eyre) with support from Chris O'Dowd, Sally Hawkins, Paddy Consi ...Show more
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oneworld Classics Ser.
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 philosophical musings to memorable scenes from his own life, includ ...Show more
Notes from Underground: Popular Penguins by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
The apology and confession of a minor mid-19th-century Russian official, Notes from Underground is a half-desperate, half-mocking political critique and a powerful, at times absurdly comical, account of man's breakaway from society and descent 'underground'.
Notes from Underground and the Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction
'The best thing is to do nothing! Better conscious inertia! So, long live the underground!'Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of hose own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's groundbreaking Notes from Undergroundtells the story of his tortured life. With bitter irony, he ...Show more
Poor People by Dostoyevsky Fyodor
$17.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction
Both a masterpiece of Russian populist writing and a parody of the entire genre, Poor People is an early example of Dostoevsky's genius. Written as a series of letters, Poor People is the tragic tale of a petty clerk and his impossible love for a young girl. Longing to help her and her family, he sells ...Show more
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: good
When brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov is murdered, the lives of his sons are changed irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide; Ivan, the intellectual, whose mental tortures drive him to breakdown; the spiritual Alyosha ...Show more
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics
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 drama of moral struggles concerning faith, doubt, and reason, set against a modernising Russia. This acclaimed new Englis ...Show more
The Crocodile (Alma Quirky Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Quirky Classics
The civil servant Ivan Matveich and his wife Yelena Ivanovna are spectators of an exhibition - in a shopping arcade - of a crocodile owned by a German, when Ivan is suddenly swallowed alive by the animal. Unsuccessful in his attempts to be freed from his prison, due to the German's concern for his croco ...Show more
The Great Mystery Collection by Edgar Allan Poe; Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Arthur Conan Doyle; Wilkie Collins; Gaston Leroux; Oscar Wilde
$79.99 AUD
Category: Classics
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; David McDuff (Translator)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Translated Texts Ser.
The most autobiographical novel by the author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov – and the namesake of Elif Batuman's debut novel, The Idiot. Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naive epileptic Prince Myshkin – known as the "idiot" – pays a visit to his ...Show more