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The Gambler is the tale of a man named Alexei with a passion for --
no, an addiction to -- roulette. In Dostoevsky's own words, ...all
his vital sap, all his energies, his impetuosity and boldness will
be absorbed by roulette. He is a gambler, but not just an ordinary
gambler ...My hero is, in his way, a poet, but he feels
ashamed...and he feels its ugliness the ugliness of his addiction]
deeply. It's an oddly sympathetic tale, and Dostoevsky was well
suited to telling it: The heroine of The Gambler is based on the
fiery Apollinaria Suslov -- Dostoevsky's own mistress.
Poor Folk is an epistolary novel -- that is, a tale told as a
series of letters between the characters. And oh, what characters
these are Makar Dievushkin Alexievitch is a copy writer, barely
squeaking by; Barbara Dobroselova Alexievna works as a seamstress,
and both face the sort of everyday humiliation society puts upon
the poor. These are people respected by no one, not even by
themselves. These are folks too poor, in their circumstances, to
marry; the love between them is a chaste and proper thing, a love
that brings some readers to tears. But it isn't maudlin, either;
Fyodor Dostoevsky has something profound to say about these people
and this circumstance. And he says it very well. When the book was
first published a leading Russian literary critic of the day --
Belinsky -- prophesied that Dostoevsky would become a literary
giant. It isn't hard to see how he came to that conclusion, and in
hindsight, he was surely was correct.
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Fathers and Sons (Paperback, New edition)
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev; Introduction by Lionel Kelly; Series edited by Keith Carabine; Translated by C.J. Hogarth
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R123
Discovery Miles 1 230
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With an Introduction by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading.
Translated by C.J. Hogarth. Fathers and Sons is one of the greatest
nineteenth century Russian novels, and has long been acclaimed as
Turgenev's finest work. It is a political novel set in a domestic
context, with a universal theme, the generational divide between
fathers and sons. Set in 1859 at the moment when the Russian
autocratic state began to move hesitantly towards social and
political reform, the novel explores the conflict between the
liberal-minded fathers of Russian reformist sympathies and their
free-thinking intellectual sons whose revolutionary ideology
threatened the stability of the state. At its centre is Evgeny
Bazorov, a strong-willed antagonist of all forms of social
orthodoxy who proclaims himself a nihilist and believes in the need
to overthrow all the institutions of the state. As the novel
develops Bazarov's political ambitions become fatally meshed with
emotional and private concerns, and his end is a tragic failure.
The novel caused a bitter furore on its publication in 1862, and
this, a year later, drove Turgenev from Russia.
Introduction by A. N. Wilson; Translation by C. J. Hogarth
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Poor Folk (Paperback)
C.J. Hogarth; Dostoyevsky Fyodor Mikhailovich
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R311
Discovery Miles 3 110
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Dead Souls (Paperback)
Nikolai Gogol; Translated by C.J. Hogarth
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R418
Discovery Miles 4 180
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Oblomov (Paperback)
Ivan Goncharov; Translated by C.J. Hogarth
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R254
Discovery Miles 2 540
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Poor Folk (Paperback)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Translated by C.J. Hogarth
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R248
Discovery Miles 2 480
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Youth (Paperback)
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy; Translated by C.J. Hogarth
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R352
Discovery Miles 3 520
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Boyhood (Paperback)
C.J. Hogarth; Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
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R220
Discovery Miles 2 200
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Childhood (Paperback)
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy; Translated by C.J. Hogarth
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R236
Discovery Miles 2 360
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Poor Folk (Paperback)
C.J. Hogarth; Dostoyevsky Fyodor Mikhailovich
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R243
Discovery Miles 2 430
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Youth (Paperback)
C.J. Hogarth; Edited by Sir Angels; Tolstoy Lev Nikolayevich
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R283
Discovery Miles 2 830
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Boyhood (Paperback)
C.J. Hogarth; Leo Tolstoy
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R185
Discovery Miles 1 850
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