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34 reviews
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Vintage, 1993

Crime and Punishment
What can I say that hasn't been said already? This is probably the best fictional study of the effects of guilt and radical ideas on a troubled mind. The prose is flowing, and it's not hard to see why Dostoevsky considered his novels "poems". Dostoevsky's works in general are marred by a flaw I prefer to ignore as much as I can, and in this novel it is hardly present. Dostoesky's politics are ...

The Idiot (Modern Library Classics)

81 reviews
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Modern Library, 2003

Is the title ironic? or pragmatic?
I had read just two Dostoevsy novel before this - 'The Brothers Karamazov' and 'Notes from the Underground', but lots of Turgenev and some other Russians - Kropotkin, Goldman, .... I also have some connection with Russian people because some of my work colleagues are Russian ex-patriots (one even carries a family name mentioned at one point in 'The Idiot'). Russian naming is difficult for ...

The Idiot

23 reviews
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Vintage, 2003

A Contender for the greatest Russian novel?
If the title of this review grabbed your attention, you may argue with me. I believe, however, that the Idiot and Anna Karenina vie for this title (sorry, War and Peace, Crime and Punishment and Brothers Karamazov). Why? Dostoevsky has the uncanny knack of including every possible facet of human society, foibles, loves, hopes, dreams and disasters in his novels. (he shares this ability with ...

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

459 reviews, ...

MobileReference, 2008

A great novel
This is, of course, one of the great novels of all time. Fyodor Dostoyevsky created a number of truly wonderful works over time, such as "The Brothers Karamazov," "The Gambler," and "The Devils" (or "The Possessed"). The "Translator's Introduction" to "Crime and Punishment" provides useful context. David Magarshack, the translator, observes that (page 11) ". . .the main theme. . .had occupied ...

Demons

30 reviews
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Vintage, 1995

Demons is a devil of a read on Russian angst/nihilism by the master Dostoevsky
Demons (also known as Possessed & The Devils) is a 1878 novel by literary genius Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881). The novel is long, difficult and rife with Russian names easy to confuse. The novel is also a work of art of peerless genius. The massive novel is set in the unimportant provincial Russian town of Skvorishniki. The major characters are: Vavara Stavrogin-She is the wealthy widow ...

Notes from Underground

128 reviews
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Vintage, 1994

Move over Freud
As I was reading Part I, I thought I ought to burn the book to save myself, or possibly end up throwing myself out the window as the underground man longed to be trashed. For 34 pages he went on and on and on about the hideousness of human nature and existence. No relief. In Part II, things picked up and I even found myself laughing. But once Liza entered the picture, I sensed it was all ...

Crime and Punishment (Vintage Classics)

2 reviews
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Random House UK, 2008

Living Translation of an Alive Novel
Anyone who has delved into Russian literature knows the critical importance of the translator(s) - Tolstoy can be made brilliant or a bore, and the same goes for Dostoevsky. Translating one of the world's foremost novels is no small task, but Pevear and Volkhonsky do the work invisibly and artfully, capturing the dark but vivid language of Dostoevsky's ever-modern novel. From the psychosis of ...

The Brothers Karamazov

105 reviews
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002

Best Transaltion!
I've read The Brothers Karamazov in an least four translations now, and this is an absolutely delicious translation, the very best. Pevear and Volokhonsky bring great, suggestive depth, and great subtlety to the English text of this very great Russian novel.

The Brothers Karamazov (Everyman's Library)

213 reviews
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Everyman's Library, 1992

Amazing
"All religions are based upon this desire and I am a believer." He comes as close as any author to expressing truth in fiction.

Crime and Punishment (Norton Critical Editions)

11 reviews
Fyodor Dostoevsky

W. W. Norton, 1989

the Coulson translation can't be beat
Just a quick note to point out that if you're gonna read "Crime and Punishment" in English, the Jesse Coulson translation is indisputably the best one published to date. Avoid at all costs the Garnett translation (as ubiquitous as it is stuffy), and try to keep away from the recently done one, the Pevear and Volokhonsky job (said to be breezy and inaccurate). The Sidney Monas translation ...

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

1 review

MobileReference, 2008

hard read, but worth it
This is a long and difficult book, but very interesting. It is an excellent book, but still not my favorite of Dostoyevsky's. This reads like a murder mystery, and there are also lots of philosophical and religious undertones. I would say that this is a good translation and the book includes some helpful tips to get through the story. Honestly, one of the harder things for me was figuring out ...

The Karamazov Brothers (Oxford World's Classics)

9 reviews
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Oxford University Press, USA, 1998

The most magnificent novel ever written
I cannot take credit for the title of my review - apparently, Sigmund Freud said it first, and, while I cannot say that I would agree with Freud on every subject, I must say, unequivocally, that I agree with his statement about The Karamozov Brothers (with the caveat that, of course, I have not read every novel ever written, so, take the statement for what it's worth). My only lament regarding ...

Great Russian Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)

1 review
Leonid Andreyev, Anton Chekhov, ...

Dover Publications, 2003

Who are the translators?
This is a nice, cheap collection of Russian stories by a wide range of authors from the 19th and early 20th century, including some very nice tales by authors who are less famous (Garshin, Andreyev, Kuprin), in addition to gems by the well-known masters (Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov.) I would especially recommend "The Queen of Spades", a Pushkin ghost story that was turned into ...

The Adolescent

10 reviews
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Vintage, 2004

The Most Modern Novel I've Read in a Year
If you judge this book on plot and style - you would probably be inclined to toss it after the first hundred pages. However, plot and style are not parts of what modern art is all about. Every reader is, essentially, a passive consumer, sometimes endowed with a degree of healthy curiosity. And every writer's goal today, in my opinion, is to penetrate deeply into the heart and mind of such a ...

The Gambler (Modern Library Classics)

8 reviews
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Modern Library, 2003

Gambling On Greatness
This short novel, written at break neck speed to appease his publisher, is stunning. By turns humorous and deeply dark it reveals how all our lives are subject to the wheel of fate, and that with every turn could be happiness or ruin.

The Eternal Husband and Other Stories

4 reviews
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Bantam Classics, 2000

Wonderful. Even better for Dostoevsky-philes
This is a fabulous collection. "The Eternal Husband" is quite interesting and features the trademark Doestoevsian psychological interplay (along the lines of that found between _Crime and Punishment_'s Raskolnikov and Porfiry Petrovich, or _The Idiot_'s Rogozhin and Prince Nikolaevich). However, the short stories included are, imho, superior to "The Eternal Husband." "A Nasty Anecdote" is a ...

The Brothers Karamazov (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics)

2 reviews
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Barnes & Noble Classics, 2004

A deep, psychological, verbose masterpiece!
The Brothers Karamazov is said to be the greatest and last novel written by Fyodor Dostoevsky. In reading the novel, one discovers why so. The novel is set in nineteenth century Russia, and deals with the story of three brothers, Dmitri, Ivan and Alyosha, and the events surrounding the murder of their father Fyodor Kamarazov. The father is a drunkard baffoon, who spares no thoughts or money to ...

The Double and The Gambler

1 review
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Vintage, 2007

Dostoevsky's "Pulp"
These two short novels by Dostoevsky, are a change of pace fot the writer. "The Double" was written when the author was young and was sort of a "riff" on Gogol-style absurdity. Mr. Golyadkin goes to work one day and finds a man with the same name who looks just like hiim doing his job. What's worse is that the other man is more popular with the coworkers than he ever was. It is a darkly comic ...

The Brothers Karamazov (Barnes & Noble Classics)

4 reviews
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Barnes & Noble Classics, 2005

Without a doubt... greatest novel ever written.
Fyodor Dostoevsky once wrote in a letter to his brother, "Man is a mystery. It needs to be unraveled, and if you spend your whole life unraveling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being." In Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov¸ he unravels the very nature man: his passion, his intellect, and his soul. In his novel, Dostoevsky explores ...

The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky (Modern Library)

8 reviews
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Modern Library, 2001

Don't let the short ones fool you- this is the real thing
I've only recently begun to read 19th century Russian literature, lured there by a chance reading of 'Crime and Punishment' which floored me. Upon finishing that book I knew that Dostoevsky was the real deal and felt a smug assurance that I could go into the bookstore, buy another of his novels/collection of stories, and feel equally floored. So I bought this book. After purchasing it, I ...

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