Fyodor Dostoevsky

Rare edition with unique illustrations and elegant classic cream paper. The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel set in 19th century Russia, 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. Includes unique illustrations

Фёдор Миха́йлович Достое́вский (дореф. Ѳедоръ Михайловичъ Достоевскій; 30 октября 1821, Москва, Российская империя -- 28 января 1881, Санкт-Петербург, Российская империя) -- русский писатель, мыслитель, философ и публицист. Член-корреспондент Петербургской АН с 1877 года. Как в начале, так и в продолжении своего литературного творчества после четырёх лет каторги и ссылки за участие в кружке Петрашевского Достоевский выступал в качестве новатора в русле традиций русского реализма, что не получило должной оценки современников при жизни писателя. После смерти Достоевский был признан классиком русской литературы и одним из лучших романистов мирового значения, считается первым представителем персонализма в России. Творчество русского писателя оказало воздействие на мировую литературу, в частности, на творчество ряда лауреатов Нобелевской премии по литературе, на становление экзистенциализма и фрейдизма. К наиболее значительным произведениям писателя относятся романы «великого пятикнижия . Романы «Преступление и наказание , «Идиот , «Бесы и «Братья Карамазовы включены в список 100 лучших книг Норвежского книжного клуба 2002 года. Многие известные произведения Достоевского многократно экранизировались и инсценировались в театре, ставились балетные и оперные постановки. (wikipedia.org)

The House of the Dead recounts the story of Alexander Goryanchikov, a gentleman who is sent to a prison colony in Siberia for killing his wife. Largely ignored at first by his fellow inmates due to his noble blood, 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, assimilating the institution’s social codes and learning that even convicts are capable of acts of pure generosity. Based on Dostoevsky’s own autobiographical experiences of penal servitude in Siberia, this genre-defying novel is not only an unflinching exposé of the conditions faced by prisoners during the Tsarist period, but also a call to see the human side in criminals and rediscover the values of forgiveness and compassion. 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.

In the character of Prince Myshkin, Dostoevsky, master of the philosphical novel, set himself the task of depicting "the positively good and beautiful man." The novel examines the consequences of placing such a unique individual at the centre of the conflicts, desires, passions and egoism of worldly society, both for the man himself and for those with whom he becomes involved. The result is, according to A. C. Grayling, "one of the most excoriating, compelling and remarkable books ever written; and without question one of the greatest."

Glavnaja geroinja romana F. M. Dostoevskogo - Netochka - rodilas' v bednoj sem'e. Ee otec umer, kogda ona byla eshhe sovsem malen'koj, i mat' vyshla zamuzh za drugogo. Otchim schital sebja talantlivym muzykantom, chasto vypival i predavalsja mechtanijam o luchshej zhizni. Sluchilos' tak, chto v vozraste desjati let Netochka ostalas' krugloj sirotoj. Dostoevskij ochen' tonko, psihologichno opisyvaet ee zhizn' s samogo detstva i do zrelogo vozrasta, ee vnutrennjuju bor'bu, izmenenija v haraktere, ee mechty i stremlenie k schast'ju.

Knigu ocherkov Zapiski iz Mertvogo doma F. M. Dostoevskij napisal vskore posle vozvrashhenija s katorgi. Jeto unikal'nyj dokument, vkljuchajushhij rasskazy o sud'bah real'nyh zakljuchennyh, kotoryh pisatel' vstrechal na katorzhnyh rabotah, mnozhestvo harakternyh vyrazhenij i pogovorok, uslyshannyh im iz ust arestantov i soldat. No jeto i glubokoe filosofskoe proizvedenie vydajushhegosja myslitelja, glavnoj ideej kotorogo vystupaet Svoboda kak neobhodimoe uslovie chelovecheskogo sushhestvovanija. Nesmotrja ni na kakie mery, zhivogo cheloveka nel'zja sdelat' trupom, - utverzhdaet avtor Zapisok iz Mertvogo doma.

Geroj povesti - melkij chinovnik, kotoryj stradaet ot togo, chto on prinizhen obshhestvom i vosstaet protiv uslovij obshhestvennoj zhizni, kotorye ego obezlichivajut. Sut' jetogo bunta Dostoevskij pojasnil tak: Ja gorzhus', chto vpervye vyvel nastojashhego cheloveka russkogo bol'shinstva i vpervye razoblachil ego urodlivuju i tragicheskuju storonu. Tragizm sostoit v soznanii urodlivosti. Dostoevskij govorit: - Tol'ko ja odin vyvel tragizm podpol'ja, sostojashhij v stradanii, v samokazni, v soznanii luchshego i v nevozmozhnosti dostich' ego i, glavnoe, v jarkom ubezhdenii jetih neschastnyh, chto i vse takovy, a stalo byt', ne stoit i ispravljat'sja .

Molodoj chelovek, vypusknik Peterburgskogo universiteta, poluchaet strannoe pis'mo ot svoego djadi, polkovnika v otstavke, vladel'ca sela Stepanchikova. I vot junosha priezzhaet v imenie djadi i uznaet, chto vse v dome, vkljuchaja hozjaev, vynuzhdeny ispolnjat' kaprizy prizhival'shhika Fomy Fomicha Opiskina... Obraz rossijskogo Tartjufa zanimal Dostoevskogo v te gody, kogda on nahodilsja v sibirskoj ssylke. Poluchiv v 1857 godu polnuju amnistiju i razreshenie publikovat'sja, pisatel' vzjalsja za jetot sjuzhet. On vozlagal na povest' bol'shie nadezhdy, rasschityvaja ukrepit' svoe polozhenie v literature. Odnako sovremennikami ona byla vstrechena prohladno; namnogo pozdnee, kogda o tvorchestve Dostoevskogo mozhno bylo sudit' retrospektivno, ego rannjaja povest' stala chrezvychajno populjarnoj, a imja glavnogo geroja - naricatel'nym. V obraze Fomy Fomicha Opiskina ugadyvajutsja geroi posledujushhego tvorchestva Dostoevskogo, boleznenno perezhivajushhie svoe unizhennoe polozhenie i vmeste s tem perepolnennye ambicijami.

V romane Podrostok F. M. Dostoevskij obrisoval slozhnyj umstvennyj i nravstvennyj put' razvitija russkogo junoshi iz obshhestvennyh nizov, rano uznavshego iznanku zhizni, stradajushhego ot vseobshhego besporjadka i social'nogo neblagoobrazija .

Jeto - Igrok. Proizvedenie zhestkoe do zhestokosti, nervnoe do nerovnosti i iskrennee - uzhe do dushevnoj obnazhennosti. Jeto - svoeobraznaja istorija obyknovennogo bezumija po-dostoevski. Istorija azarta, stavshego dlja cheloveka uzhe ne smyslom igry i dazhe ne smyslom zhizni, no - edinstvennoj, jekzistencial'noj sut'ju bytija. Jeto - Igrok. I jeto - vozmozhno, edinstvennaja avtobiograficheskaja kniga Dostoevskogo.

Djadjushkin son - komicheskaja povest' o starike-volokite, jedakom oblomke aristokratii. Zhilety i duhi, perchatki i galstuki, vse jeto ne v sostojanii prevratit' mertveca na pruzhinah v junoshu...

V povesti Dvojnik (1846) Dostoevskim dan glubokij psihologicheskij analiz raskolotogo soznanija, analiz, predveshhajushhij velikie romany pisatelja. Povest' Dvojnik vo mnogom svjazana s hudozhestvennym mirom i pojetikoj gogolevskih peterburgskih povestej. Mozhno skazat', chto fantasticheskij i nepostizhimyj Peterburg romanov Dostoevskogo beret nachalo v jetoj povesti. Ne sluchajno ved' povest' imeet podzagolovok Peterburgskaja pojema.

Debjutnyj roman F. M. Dostoevskogo "Bednye ljudi" stal vehoj v razvitii russkoj literatury, vyzvav v moment publikacii shkval otklikov kak u kritikov, tak i u chitatelej. Roman "Bednye ljudi" po forme jeto sentimental'naja perepiska mezhdu melkim chinovnikom Makarom Devushkinym i Varen'koj Dobroselovoj, grustnaja istorija ih neschastnoj ljubvi; po suti - glubokoe social'no-psihologicheskoe issledovanie sovremennoj pisatelju dejstvitel'nosti. Avtor gorjacho sochuvstvuet svoim obezdolennym gerojam, ch'ej vnutrennej krasote i blagorodstvu dushi stol' vopijushhe ne sootvetstvujut uslovija zhizni...

Rasskaz Belye nochi - liricheskaja ispoved' geroi-mechtatelja, raskryvajushhaja slozhnyj process vospitanija chuvstv i tonchajshuju muzyku dushi. Rasskaz Chuzhaja zhena i muzh pod krovat'ju - vodevil' s mnozhestvom zabavnyh situacij, odnovremenno jeto i fel'eton, soobshhajushhij o smeshnom proisshestvii. V obshhem, komedija. Izvestnyj rasskaz Krotkaja - odno iz poslednih proizvedenij F. Dostoevskogo, voplotivshego zamysel avtora o palache i zhertve. Son smeshnogo cheloveka - fantasticheskij rasskaz F. Dostoevskogo ob Odinokom molodom cheloveke, okruzhenie kotorogo schitaet ego smeshnym chudakom. On reshaet zastrelit'sja iz-za poselivshejsja v njom idei. No sovest' iz-za sdelannogo im podlogo dela ne dajot pokoja. V razdum'e uzhe pered revol'verom geroj zasypaet. Vo sne on vidit mir, kotoryj vneshne toch'-v-toch' pohozh na Zemlju, no v kotorom vsjo ideal'no: net zlosti, zavisti, revnosti, vorovstva. Zemlja javljalas' idealom vo vsjom. Postepenno tot mir u nego na glazah prevrashhaetsja v padshij mir, kak na Zemle, i prichinoj jetogo padenija okazyvaetsja sam geroj rasskaza. Prosypaetsja geroj sovsem drugim chelovekom s osoznaniem togo, chto luchshe v nesovershennom mire sejat' ljubov' i dobro, chem naoborot... Velikij inkvizitor (Legenda o Velikom inkvizitore) - vstavnaja pritcha, opublikovannaja v ijun'skom nomere 1879 goda zhurnala Russkij vestnik v sostave pjatoj glavy pjatoj knigi Pro i contra vtoroj chasti romana Fjodora Dostoevskogo Brat'ja Karamazovy. Pritcha predstavljaet soboj allegoricheskij rasskaz Ivana Karamazova Aljoshe Karamazovu na temu hristianskoj svobody voli, svobody sovesti, ona zakljuchaet v sebe izlozhenie pozicii pisatelja na obshhestvo, pravoslavie, katolicizm i zanimaet kljuchevoe mesto ne tol'ko v romane, no i vo vsej sisteme filosofskih cennostej ego avtora. Dostoevskij nazyval Velikogo inkvizitora kul'minacionnoj tochkoj svoego poslednego romana.

This new edition presents The Grand Inquisitor together with the preceding chapter, Rebellion, and the extended reply offered by Dostoevsky in the following sections, entitled The Russian Monk. By showing how Dostoevsky frames the Grand Inquisitor story in the wider context of the novel, this edition captures the subtlety and power of Dostoevsky's critique of modernity as well as his alternative vision of human fulfillment.

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (11 November 1821 - 9 February 1881), sometimes transliterated Dostoevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. Dostoyevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of realistic philosophical and religious themes.

White Nights, is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky that was published in 1848. Set in St. Petersburg, this is the story of a young man fighting his inner restlessness. A light and tender narrative, it delves into the torment and guilt of unrequited love. Both protagonists suffer from a deep sense of alienation that initially brings them together. A blend of romanticism and realism, the story appeals gently to the senses and feelings.

During a stifling St Petersburg summer, the rich landowner Velchaninov is haunted by the figure of a man he keeps glimpsing in the street. When he receives a surprise visit from him late at night, he realizes he is an old friend, Trusotsky, whose late wife, Natalya, was his secret lover. As the two men renew their acquaintance, Velchaninov becomes aware that Trusotsky’s child is, in fact, his own daughter. From then on, the destinies of the two old friends become intertwined as they engage – at turns repelled and attracted by each other – in a dangerous game of cat and mouse that will lead to a final dramatic confrontation. Compelling, gripping, darkly humorous, The Eternal Husband – composed by the author at the peak of his writing powers, between The Idiot and Devils, and described by Dostoevsky’s biographer Joseph Frank as “a small masterpiece” – shows Dostoevsky at his best as a ruthless dissector of the quirks and foibles of the human character.