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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 such a union come about, she must contend with rival matchmakers and Zina’s wilfulness • Written soon after Dostoevsky was released from the prison camp that inspired The House of the Dead, Uncle’s Dream shares very little of that novel’s gloomy tone and contains many elements of a light, drawing-room farce. Beneath the surface, however, lies a sharply satirical voice which looks ahead in part to later novels such as Devils

"Преступление и наказание" Федора Достоевского - одно из самых значительных произведений в истории мировой литературы. Это и глубокий философский роман, и тонкая психологическая драма, и захватывающий детектив, и величественная картина мрачного города, в недрах которого герои грешат и ищут прощения, жертвуют собой и отрекаются от себя ради ближних и находят успокоение в смирении, покаянии, вере. Главный герой романа Родион Раскольников решается на убийство, чтобы доказать себе и миру, что он не "тварь дрожащая", а "право имеет". Главным предметом исследования писателя становится процесс превращения добропорядочного, умного и доброго юноши в убийцу, а также то, как совершивший преступление Раскольников может искупить свою вину • Книга на английском языке

"Преступление и наказание" Федора Достоевского - одно из самых значительных произведений в истории мировой литературы. Это и глубокий философский роман, и тонкая психологическая драма, и захватывающий детектив, и величественная картина мрачного города, в недрах которого герои грешат и ищут прощения, жертвуют собой и отрекаются от себя ради ближних и находят успокоение в смирении, покаянии, вере. Главный герой романа Родион Раскольников решается на убийство, чтобы доказать себе и миру, что он не "тварь дрожащая", а "право имеет". Главным предметом исследования писателя становится процесс превращения добропорядочного, умного и доброго юноши в убийцу, а также то, как совершивший преступление Раскольников может искупить свою вину • Книга на английском языке

Достоевский Фёдор Михайлович (1821-1881) - один из величайших писателей золотого века русской литературы. В своих произведениях автор задаёт вечные вопросы бытия. Ответы на них поможет найти криминальный роман "Преступление и наказание". Каково это - убить? Нарушить нравственный закон ради идеи: "Вошь ли я, как все, или человек? Смогу ли переступить или не смогу? Тварь ли я дрожащая или право имею?". Нищий студент Родион Раскольников ставит себя перед страшным выбором, за которым - свобода и власть или путь к помешательству

«Преступление и наказание» – величайший роман в истории русской и мировой литературы – представляет собой не просто «психологический отчет одного преступления», как первоначально задумывал его Федор Михайлович Достоевский. Это глубокое исследование тайн человеческой природы, произведение, в котором автор ставит вечные вопросы: о преступлении и наказании, душевной жестокости и сострадании, смерти и воскрешении души. «Его герои прокладывают пути нового мира; роман Достоевского – миф о новом человеке и его рождении из лона русской души» (С. Цвейг)

"Достоевский постоянно совершенствовался. Вряд ли он был гением типа Моцарта или Шуберта, скорее его можно сравнить с Бетховеном в том, что он все время с боем пробивался сквозь тернии к звездам, отталкиваясь от того, что он уже достиг, чтобы в итоге создать произведение, обожествляемое всеми" (Харуки Мураками)

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, Prince Myshkin finds himself entangled with two women in a position he cannot bring himself to resolve. Dostoevsky, who wrote that in the character of Prince Myshkin he hoped to portray a wholly virtuous man, shows the workings of the human mind and our relationships with others in all their complex and contradictory nature. Populated by an unforgettable cast of characters, from the beautiful, self-destructive Nastasya Filippovna to the dangerously obsessed Rogozhin and the radical student Ippolit, The Idiot is one of Dostoevsky's most personal and intense works of fiction presented here in a new translation

Written in the form of a diary, The House of the Dead recounts the story of Alexander Goryanchikov, a gentleman who is condemned to ten years hard labour for killing his wife in a fi t of rage. Initially the target of the other inmates malice, he gradually settles in and becomes an avid observer of the new world around him - watching his fellow prisoners being brutally and cruelly punished by the guards, listening to their past stories of blood and murder and learning that even convicts are capable of acts of pure generosity, as when they sacrifice their own meal to feed a stray dog that wanders around the camp. Based on Dostoevsky's own autobiographical experiences during a four year internment in a prison colony in Siberia, this genre-defying novel is not only an unflinching expose of the conditions of Russian prisoners during the Tsarist period, but also a call to see the human side in criminals and rediscover the values of forgiveness and brotherly love

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 and incitement to suicide. But when they are forced to test the limits of their doctrine and kill one of their own to secure the secrecy of their mission, the ragtag group breaks up in mutual recrimination • Devils is at once a compelling political statement and a study of atheism and its calamitous effect on a country that is teetering on the edge of an abyss. Seen as Dostoevsky's most powerful indictment of man's propensity to violence, this darkly humorous work, shot through with grotesque comedy, is presented here in Roger Cockrell's masterful new translation

Constantly rebuffed from the social circles he aspires to frequent, the timid clerk Golyadkin is confronted by the sudden appearance of his double, a more brazen, confident and socially successful version of himself, who abuses and victimizes the original. As he is increasingly persecuted, Golyadkin finds his social, romantic and professional life unravelling, in a spiral that leads to a catastrophic denouement. The Double, Dostoevsky's second published work of fiction, which foreshadows in its themes many of his mature novels, is the surreal and hallucinatory tale of an unfortunate anti-hero, at once chilling in its depiction of the dark sides of human nature and exuberantly comical

Presented as a series of letters between the humble copying-clerk Devushkin and a distant relative of his, the young Varenka, Poor People brings to the fore the underclass of St Petersburg, who live at the margins of society in the most appalling conditions and abject poverty. As Devushkin tries to help Varenka improve her plight by selling anything he can, he is reduced to even more desperate circumstances and seeks refuge in alcohol, looking on helplessly as the object of his impossible love is taken away from him

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 crocodile and excessive desire for compensation, the civil servant gradually comes to appreciate his new environment, while his wife begins to enjoy her new-found freedom. Inspired by Gogol's surreal tales, Dostoevsky's hilarious story has been interpreted by some as a vitriolic piece of social criticism and a veiled attack on the revolutionary philosopher Nikolai Chernyshevsky