Dostoyevsky: 334 books

While contemplating his life and deeming himself ridiculous, a man on the verge of suicide is interrupted by a young girl begging for his help. In his dark mood, he brushes her away, but when he returns home to commit the act he cannot move past his feelings of guilt over his treatment of the girl. “The...

THREE MASTER WORKS FROM THE OFFICIAL CHURCH OF SATAN READING LIST From the list originally published in Magistra Blanche Barton’s The Church of Satan as approved by Magus Anton Szandor LaVey. THREE CLASSIC TEXTS FOR STUDENTS OF SATANISM AND THE OCCULT: THE BOOK OF LIES by Aleister...

Le prince Mychkine est un etre fondamentalement bon, mais sa bonté confine a la naiveté et a l'idiotie, meme s'il est capable d'analyses psychologiques tres fines. Apres avoir passé sa jeunesse en Suisse dans un sanatorium pour soigner son épilepsie (maladie dont était également atteint Dostoievski)...

Conceive the joy of a lover of nature who, leaving the art galleries, wanders out among the trees and wild flowers and birds that the pictures of the galleries have sentimentalised. It is some such joy that the man who truly loves the noblest in letters feels when tasting for the first time the simple...

Nikolai Vsevolodovich did not sleep that night, and all the time he sat on the sofa, often gazing fixedly at a particular point in the corner near the chest of drawers. All night long the lamp burnt in his room. About seven o’clock in the morning he fell asleep where he sat, and, when Alexei Egorovich,...

Dostoievski a 40 ans lorsqu'il écrit Humiliés et Offensés, peu apres son retour d'exil en Sibérie, pour soutenir une revue appartenant a son frere. C'est encore une oeuvre de «jeunesse». Vania, le narrateur, est écrivain de son état. Il recueille Nelly une jeune orpheline dont la mere est...

Fyodor Dostoevsky's short story "A Gentle Creature" explores the peculiar and rather abusive relationship between a pawnbroker and his wife. The wife is supposedly a gentle creature, meek and submissive, whereas the pawnbroker is strict and dominating, controlling. His odd, confusing, and...

White Nights, a sentimental story from the diary of a dreamer, is told in first person by a nameless narrator who lives alone in St. Petersburg and suffers from loneliness and the inability to stop thinking.

Crimen y castigo gira en torno a Rodion Raskolnikov. El protagonista es un estudiante que apenas tiene para sobrevivir, ni siquiera a través de los esfuerzos de su madre (Pulqueria) y su hermana Dunia. Rodión se indigna con Dunia porque quiere casarse con un comerciante, y él...

Notes is considered by many to be one of the first existentialist novels. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred to by critics as the Underground Man) who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg. The first...

The first-rate collection includes "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man," "Bobok," "The Christmas Tree and the Wedding," and five other short masterpieces.

The short works of Dostoevsky exist in the very large shadow of his astonishing longer novels, but they too are among literature's most revered works and offer keys to understanding the themes in his longer works. Contained in this volume are the short stories "White Nights," "A Disgraceful...

Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in St. Petersburg who formulates and executes a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her cash. Raskolnikov, in attempts to defend his actions, argues that with the pawnbroker's...