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A Disgraceful Affair by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Short Story Collections
The short works of Dostoevsky exist in the very large shadow of his astonishing longer novels, but they too are among literatureÃÂââÃÂìÃÂòs most revered works and offer keys to understanding the themes in his longer works. Contained in this volume are the short stories "White Nights," ...Show more
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
$39.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Crime and punishment is probably Dostoevsky's most read and known novel and one of the most famous literary works of all time. Published in installments in 1866 in the journal «Russkij vestnik» («The Russian Messenger»), it is the story of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, which the author describes in a l ...Show more
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
'The old woman was merely a sickness . . .it wasn't a human being I killed, it was a principle!'A troubled young man commits the perfect crime - the murder of a vile pawnbroker whom no one will miss. Raskolnikov is desperate for money, but convinces himself that his motive for the murder is to benefit m ...Show more
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of ...Show more
Devils by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics
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 a ...Show more
NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND RED by Dostoyevsky Fyodor
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
How far would you go to escape the real world? The underground man had always felt like an outsider. He doesn't want to be like other people, working in the ant-hill' of society. So he decides to withdraw from the world, scrawling a series of darkly sarcastic notes about the torment he is suffering. Ang ...Show more
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
$19.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oneworld Classics Ser.
The unnamed narrator of the novel, a former government official, has decided to retire from the world and lead a life of inactivity and contemplation. His fiercely bitter, cynical and witty monologue ranges from general observations and philosophical musings to memorable scenes from his own life, includ ...Show more
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
$19.95 AUD
Category: Classics
The underground man has always felt like an outsider. He doesn't want to be like other people, working in the 'ant-hill' of society. So he decides to withdraw from the world, scrawling a series of darkly sarcastic notes about the torments he is suffering. Is he going mad? Or is it the world around him t ...Show more
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Natasha Randall (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Canons Ser.
'I am a sick person. I am a spiteful person. An unattractive person, too . . .'In the depths of a cellar in St. Petersburg, a retired civil servant spews forth a passionate and furious note on the ills of society. The underground man's manifesto reveals his erratic, self-contradictory and even sadistic ...Show more
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Canons
I am a sick person. I am a spiteful person. An unattractive person, too ...In the depths of a cellar in St. Petersburg, a civil servant spews forth a passionate and furious note on the ills of society. The underground man's manifesto reveals his erratic, self-contradictory and even sadistic nature. Yet ...Show more
Notes from Underground: Popular Penguins by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
$9.95 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
The apology and confession of a minor mid-19th-century Russian official, Notes from Underground is a half-desperate, half-mocking political critique and a powerful, at times absurdly comical, account of man's breakaway from society and descent 'underground'.