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  • The Karamazov Brothers

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ignat Avsey ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    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 Alyosha - are all at some level involved. Bound up with this intense family drama is Dostoevsky's ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Idiot

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky ...
    After spending several years in a sanatorium recovering from an illness that caused him to lose his memory and ability to reason, Prince Myshkin arrives in St Petersburg and is at once confronted with the stark realities of life in the Russian capital - from greed, murder and nihilism to passion, vanity and love. Mocked for his childlike naivety yet valued for his openness and understanding, ... Read more

    $3.90 USD

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  • The Friend of the Family

    or, The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants 

    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky ...
    Translated by Ignat Avsey ...
    Series series Pushkin Press Classics
    **A blustering interloper and a meek aristocrat struggle for control of a country estate, in this comic novel by the author of Crime and Punishment.“Avsey's excellent translation and stimulating introduction and notes enable the reader to appreciate this novel, and its weird humour, to the full.” — Telegraph**Full of pace, effervescence and grotesque comedy, this short novel by the renowned author ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Humiliated and Insulted

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky ...
    Translated by Ignat Avsey ...
    First published in 1861, Humiliated and Insulted plunges the reader into a world of moral degradation, childhood trauma, unrequited love and irreconcilable relationships. At the centre of the story are a young struggling author, an orphaned teenager and a depraved aristocrat, who not only foreshadows the great figures of evil in Dostoevsky’s later fiction, but is a powerful and original presence ... Read more

    $3.88 USD

  • I Was Jack Mortimer

    by Alexander Lernet-Holenia ...
    Translated by Ignat Avsey ...
    Series Book 2 - Pushkin Collection
    "One doesn't step into anyone's life, not even a dead man's, without having to live it to the end."A man climbs into Ferdinand Sponer's cab, gives the name of a hotel, and before he reaches it has been murdered: shot through the throat. And though Sponer has so far committed no crime, he is drawn into the late Jack Mortimer's life, and might not be able to escape its tangles and intrigues before ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Leonardo da Vinci

    by Merezhkovsky, Dimitry Sergeyevich ...
    Translated by Ignat Avsey ...
    This evocative account of the life of the Renaissance’s greatest figure traces Leonardo’s early development as an artist and court figure to his final years in exile, portraying his loves and sufferings, as well as his intellectual curiosity and tireless loyalty to his ideals. But it is the background to his famous painting La Gioconda and his relationship with the mysterious Florentine woman who ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • Mona Lisa

    by Alexander Lernet-Holenia ...
    Translated by Ignat Avsey ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    'Love does not need any comforting. It does not even need requiting. All it needs is itself.'Florence, 1502. Marshal Louis de La Trémouille's small army has stopped off en route to Naples, to buy objects d'art for King Louis XII of France. Naturally, Leonardo da Vinci's workshop is on the shopping list; and during their visit to his house, the young nobleman de Bougainville chances upon the not ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Crime and Punishment

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky ...
    Translated by Nicolas Pasternak Slater ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'One death, in exchange for thousands of lives - it's simple arithmetic!' A new translation of Dostoevsky's epic masterpiece, Crime and Punishment (1866). The impoverished student Raskolnikov decides to free himself from debt by killing an old moneylender, an act he sees as elevating himself above conventional morality. Like Napoleon he will assert his will and his crime will be justified by its ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • A Gentle Creature and Other Stories

    White Nights; A Gentle Creature; The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky ...
    Translated by Alan Myers ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    In the stories in this volume Dostoevsky explores both the figure of the dreamer divorced from reality and also his own ambiguous attitude to utopianism, themes central to many of his great novels. In White Nights the apparent idyll of the dreamer's romantic fantasies disguises profound loneliness and estrangement from 'living life'. Despite his sentimental friendship with Nastenka, his final ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Anna Karenina

    by Leo Tolstoy ...
    Translated by Rosamund Bartlett ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Love... it means too much to me, far more than you can understand. At its simplest, Anna Karenina is a love story. It is a portrait of a beautiful and intelligent woman whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties - to her marriage and to the network of relationships and moral values that bind the society around her. The love affair of Anna and Vronsky is played out ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

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  • The Idiot

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alan Myers ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Into a compellingly real portrait of nineteenth-century Russian society, Dostoevsky introduces his ideal hero, the saintly Prince Myshkin. The tensions subsequently unleashed by the hero's innocence, truthfulness, and humility betray the inadequacy of his moral idealism and disclose the spiritual emptiness of a society that cannot accommodate him. Myshkin's mission ends in idiocy and darkness, but ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Demons

    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Joanna Moorhead ...
    Translated by Robert Maguire ...
    Demons, also known as The Possessed or The Devils, is a dark masterpiece that evokes a world where the lines between and good and evil long ago became blurred. This Penguin Classics edition of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Demons is translated by Robert A. Maguire and edited by Ronald Meyer, with an introduction by Robert L. Belknap.Pyotr Verkhovensky and Nikolai Stavrogin are the leaders of a Russian ... Read more

    $14.29 USD