Fyodor Dostoyevsky
1) The idiot
Author
Language
English
Description
Twenty-six-year-old Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin returns to Russia after spending several years at a Swiss sanatorium. Scorned by the society of St. Petersburgh for his idiocy, generosity and innocence, he finds himself at the centre of a struggle between a beautiful kept woman and a gorgeous, virtuous girl, both of whom win his affection. Unfortunately, Myshkin's very goodness seems to precipitate disaster, leaving the impression that, in a world...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 295
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
xxix, 336 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
A translation of the classic written at the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century follows the narrator's withdrawal from his life as an official to the underground, where he makes passionate and obsessive observations on social utopianism and the irrational nature of humankind.
9) Devils
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
22 CDs (28 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on a true event, in which a young revolutionary was murdered by his comrades, The Possessed provoked a storm of controversy for its harsh depiction of a ruthless band of Russian intellectuals, atheists, socialists, anarchists, and other radicals who attempt to incite the population of a small provincial town to revolt against the government. In contrast to Dostoevsky's savage portrait of these radicals and the violent ideas that have possessed...
10) The possessed
Author
Publisher
The Modern Library
Pub. Date
[1936]
Physical Desc
xiv, 736 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
14) The gambler
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
1981.
Physical Desc
180 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English