The Gambler is a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky about a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian General. The novella reflects Dostoevskyâs own addiction to roulette, which was in more ways than one the inspiration for...
The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel that enters deeply into the ethical debates of God, free will, and morality. It is a spiritual drama of moral struggles concerning faith, doubt, and reason, set against a modernizing Russia. Dosto...
Three master works from the official Church of Satan reading list: The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley, The Anti-Christ by Friedrich Nietzsche and Notes from Underground Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Dostoyevsky's dark masterpiece of murder, the ensuing mental anguish, and finally a spiritual restoration. Truly one of the great novels of all time, and one of the most readable.
Dostoyevsky's dark masterpiece of murder, the ensuing mental anguish, and finally a spiritual restoration. Truly one of the great novels of all time, and one of the most readable.
Like many of Dostoyevsky's stories, "White Nights" is told in first person by a nameless narrator; the narrator is living in Saint Petersburg and suffers from loneliness. He gets to know and falls in love with a young woman, but the love...
Netotchka Nezvanova, ecrit entre 1847 et 1849, alors que Dostoievski n'avait pas trente ans, met en scene une jeune orpheline amoureuse de son beau-pere - violoniste peut-etre genial mais alcoolique -, puis attiree par la fille de l'homme qui finalement...
In 1849, Dostoevsky was sentenced to four years at hard labor in a Siberian prison camp for participating in a socialist discussion group. The novel he wrote after his release, based on notes he smuggled out, not only brought him fame, but also founded...
One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries...
The Gambler is a riveting portrait of a desperate young man in the grip of gambling addiction, a compulsion that author Dostoyevsky knew about intimately. In this succinct but powerful novel, the Russian master examines the irresistible impulses in human...
Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride...
Notes from Underground is considered by many to be the first existentialist novel consisting of excerpts from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg. The first part of the story...
Within Uncleâs Dream and The Permanent Husband are two of Dostoyevskyâs novellas. Uncleâs Dreams is narrated with objectivity, satire, and social reportage in its comic send-up of small-town manners...
Poor Folk is written in the form of letters between Makar Devushkin and Varvara Dobroselova, who are poor second cousins. It showcases the life of poor people, their relationship with rich people, and poverty in general. A friendship develops between the...
White Nights is told in first person by a nameless narrator who lives in Saint Petersburg and suffers from loneliness. He falls in love with a young woman, but the love remains unrequited as the woman misses her lover with whom she is finally reunited....
An official tie-in edition to accompany Richard Ayoade's brilliant new film based on Dostoyevsky's deliciously dark and slyly funny novel. The Double stars Oscar nominee Jesse Eisenberg ( The Social Network ) and Mia Wasikowska ( Jane Eyre ) with...