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Rudin (Hardcover)
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Constance Black Garnett
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R881
Discovery Miles 8 810
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Smoke
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Constance Black Garnett
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R884
Discovery Miles 8 840
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Completed only two months before his death, "The Brothers
Karamazov" is Dostoyevsky's largest, most expanisve, most
life-embracing work. Filled with human passions--lust, greed, love,
jealousy, sorrow and humor--the book is also infused with moral
issues and the issue of collective guilt. As in many of
Dostoyevsky's novels, the plot centers on a murder. Sucked into the
crime's vortex are three brothers: Dmitri, a young officer utterly
unrestrained in love, hatred, jealousy, and generosity; Ivan, an
intellectual capable of delivering, impromptu, the most brilliant,
lively, and unforgettable disquisitions about good and evil, God,
and the devil; and Alyosha, the youngest brother, preternaturally
patient, good, and loving.
Part mystery, part profound philosophical and theological debate,
"The Brothers Karamazov "pulls the reader in on many different
levels. As the Introduction says, "The characters Dostoyevsky
writes about, though they may not appear to be ones who live on our
street, or even on any street, seem, in their passions and lack of
self-control, the familiar and intimate denizens of our souls."
It's no wonder that for many people "The Brothers Karamazov "is one
of the greatest novels ever written.
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The Idiot (Paperback)
Constance Black Garnett, F. M. Dostoevsky
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R215
R192
Discovery Miles 1 920
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"My intention is to portray a truly beautiful soul." -- Dostoevsky
Despite the harsh circumstances besetting his own life -- object poverty, incessant gambling, the death of his firstborn child -- Dostoevsky produced a second masterpiece, The Idiot, just two years after completing Crime and Punishment. In it, a saintly man, Prince Myshkin, is thrust into the heart of a society more concerned with wealth, power and sexual conquest than with the ideals of Christianity. Myshkin soon finds himself at the center of a violent love triangle in which a notorious woman and a beautiful young girl become rivals for his affections. Extortion, scandal and murder follow, testing Myshkin's moral feelings as Dostoevsky searches through the wreckage left by human misery to find "man in man." The Idiot is a quintessentially Russian novel, one that penetrates the complex psyche of the Russian people. "They call me a psychologist," wrote Dostoevsky. "That is not true. I'm only a realist in the higher sense; that is, I portray all the depths of the human soul."
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Rudin (Paperback)
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Constance Black Garnett
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R655
Discovery Miles 6 550
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Smoke
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Constance Black Garnett
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R663
Discovery Miles 6 630
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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