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The Idiot (Paperback, Reissue)
Fyodor Dostoevsky; Translated by Constance Garnett; Introduction by Agnes Cardinal; Notes by Agnes Cardinal; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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R132
Discovery Miles 1 320
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Translated by Constance Garnett, with an Introduction and Notes by
Agnes Cardinal, Honorary Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature
at the University of Kent. Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from an
asylum in Switzerland. As he becomes embroiled in the frantic
amatory and financial intrigues which centre around a cast of
brilliantly realised characters and which ultimately lead to
tragedy, he emerges as a unique combination of the Christian ideal
of perfection and Dostoevsky's own views, afflictions and manners.
His serene selflessness is contrasted with the worldly qualities of
every other character in the novel. Dostoevsky supplies a harsh
indictment of the Russian ruling class of his day who have created
a world which cannot accomodate the goodness of this idiot.
With an Introduction and Notes by David Rampton, Department of
English, University of Ottowa. Notes from Underground and Other
Stories is a comprehensive collection of Dostoevsky's short
fiction. Many of these stories, like his great novels, reveal his
special sympathy for the solitary and dispossessed, explore the
same complex psychological issues and subtly combine rich
characterization and philosophical meditations on the (often) dark
areas of the human psyche, all conveyed in an idiosyncratic blend
of deadly seriousness and wild humour. In Notes from Underground,
the Underground Man casually dismantles utilitarianism and
celebrates in its stead a perverse but vibrant masochism. A
Christmas Tree and a Wedding recounts the successful pursuit of a
young girl by a lecherous old man. In Bobok, one Ivan Ivanovitch
listens in on corpses gossiping in a cemetery and ends up deploring
their depravity. In A Gentle Spirit, the narrator describes his
dawning recognition that he is responsible for his wife's suicide.
In short, as a commentator on spiritual stagnation, Dostoevsky has
no equal.
Twenty-two lesser-known short stories from Anton Chekhov
(1860-1904), including The Horse-Stealers, Ward No. 6, and the
Petchenyeg.
Tolstoy's 1893 book, subtitled "Christianity Not as a Mystical
Teaching but as a New Concept of Life," introduced such vital
concepts as non-violent resistance to 20th Century figures as
Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. Although Tolstoy is best
known as one of the great Russian novelists, his place as a social
reformer and peace advocate cannot be underestimated.
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The Karamazov Brothers (Paperback)
Fyodor Dostoevsky; Translated by Constance Garnett; Introduction by A.D.P. Briggs; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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R149
Discovery Miles 1 490
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Translated by Constance Garnett, with an Introduction by A. D. P.
Briggs. As Fyodor Karamazov awaits an amorous encounter, he is
violently done to death. The three sons of the old debauchee are
forced to confront their own guilt or complicity. Who will own to
parricide? The reckless and passionate Dmitri? The corrosive
intellectual Ivan? Surely not the chaste novice monk Alyosha? The
search reveals the divisions which rack the brothers, yet
paradoxically unite them. Around the writhings of this one
dysfunctional family Dostoevsky weaves a dense network of social,
psychological and philosophical relationships. At the same time he
shows - from the opening 'scandal' scene in the monastery to a
personal appearance by an eccentric Devil - that his dramatic
skills have lost nothing of their edge. The Karamazov Brothers,
completed a few months before Dostoevsky's death in 1881, remains
for many the high point of his genius as novelist and chronicler of
the modern malaise. It cast a long shadow over D. H. Lawrence,
Thomas Mann, Albert Camus, and other giants of twentieth-century
European literature.
This Ivan Turgenev collection unites three of his finest stories
into a single, compelling, and affordable edition. A lauded member
of the Russia's literary avant-garde during the mid-19th century,
Turgenev's novels and short stories have been celebrated for their
poignant, emotionally striking themes and the deft use of plot
twists. In Torrents of Spring, we follow Dmitry Sanin, a young
landowner who embarks on travel from his homestead in Russia to the
German city of Frankfurt. Having already toured Italy and other
places in Europe, Dmitry is en route home, and treats Frankfurt as
a last stop. First Love - revered as one of Turgenev's best tales -
begins at a party in which three middle-aged men are each telling
the tale of their first love. Mumu concerns Gerasim, a deaf and
mute serf who has moved to Moscow after a life spent working the
country fields.
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The Gambler (Hardcover)
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky; Translated by Constance Garnett
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R627
Discovery Miles 6 270
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The Gambler is a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky about a young tutor in
the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian General. The novella
reflects Dostoevsky's own addiction to roulette, which was in more
ways than one the inspiration for the book: Dostoevsky completed
the novella under a strict deadline so he could pay off gambling
debts.
Young love is ever thus, is it not? Even when it's the doomed young
love of a Russian master like Turgenev.
There is a great doppelganger tradition in literature, but there is
nothing is quite like Fyodor Dostoevsky's _The Double_. (Jacketless
library hardcover.)
While his restless wife watches, the chemist snores contentedly,
smiling at his dream -- that the whole village has a cough and are
buying his curative syrup!
Then she hears outside two shadowed figures, a doctor and an
officer, talking between themselves . . . about the chemist with
the oversized jaw of an ass, and his ever-so-contrasting,
so-fetching wife! Then the doorbell rings. Soon the chemist's wife
finds herself hosting a small midnight party, gazing upon their
ruddy faces and listening to their chatter -- and soon she, too,
grows quite lively. Oh, she feels so gay! The dead weight pressing
her down on this heavy summer night lifts completely . . .
Chekhov's unerring insight into the turbulent emotions that stir
men and women, in "The Chemist's Wife" and the others to be found
within "The Duel and Other Stories," instills his gemlike fiction
with a still-undiminished power.
The Possessed (In Russian:, tr. Besy), also translated as The
Devils or Demons, is an 1872 novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The
Possessed is an extremely political book, and is a testimonial of
life in Imperial Russia in the late 19th century. As the
revolutionary democrats begin to rise in Russia, different
ideologies begin to collide. Dostoevsky casts a critical eye on
both the left-wing idealists, exposing their ideas and ideological
foundation as demonic, and the conservative establishment's
ineptitude in dealing with those ideas and their social
consequences. This form of intellectual conservativism tied to the
Slavophil movement of Dostoevsky's day, is seen to have continued
on into its modern manifestation in individuals like Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn. Dostoevsky's novels focusing on the idea that utopias
and positivist ideas, in being utilitarian, were unrealistic and
unobtainable. The book has five primary ideological characters:
Verkhovensky, Shatov, Stavrogin, Stepan Trofimovich, and Kirilov.
Through their philosophies, Dostoevsky describes the political
chaos seen in 19th-Century Russia.
Great Russian author Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883) was an
avid hunter and nature lover and used his own experiences in the
woods of his native Russia to pen A HUNTER'S SKETCHES (written in
the period of 1852-1874). This work established his reputation as a
foremost writer of his time. Do you know, for instance, the delight
of setting off before daybreak in spring? You come out on to the
steps...In the dark-grey sky stars are twinkling here and there; a
damp breeze in faint gusts flies to meet you now and then; there is
heard the secret, vague whispering of the night; the trees faintly
rustle, wrapt in darkness. And now they put a rug in the cart, and
lay a box with the samovar at your feet. -- from The Forest And The
Steppe
Included in this volume are "The Lady with the Dog," "A Doctor's
Visit," "An Upheaval," "Ionitch," "The Head of the Family," "The
Black Monk," "Volodya," "An Anonymous Story," and "The Husband."
"The Schoolmistress and Other Stories" contains twenty-one tales by
Russian master of drama and the short story, Anton Chekhov. Among
the stories is one of Chekhov's classics, "The Bet," in which a
greedy banker makes an ill-considered bet regarding capital
punishment with a young and impressionable guest. Fifteen years
later -- the surprise ending provides one of Chekhov's most
thought-provoking tales. The title story is a careful reminder of
the soul-deadening life of a teacher in the Russian countryside --
for in Russia of Chekhov's day, education was less-valued than it
is today, and teachers greatly underpaid and undervalued. Chekhov
was of a different social background than more aristocratic Russian
authors such as Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Turgenev -- this offered
him an insight into character that differed from theirs. A
physician as well, Chekhov's observational skills are clear in
this, as with all of his collections of short fiction. These
stories will remind the reader of other 19th Century masters of
short fiction, such as Maupassant. But their nature, and poetic
irony, is exclusively that of Anton Chekhov.
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Anna Karenina (Hardcover)
Leo Tolstoy; Translated by Constance Garnett
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R1,116
R1,017
Discovery Miles 10 170
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Anna Karenina (1877) by Leo Tolstoy is a classic story of love and
tragedy against the backdrop of pre-revolutionary Russia. The
extravagant and dramatic story of Anna Karenina who risks
everything for passion is intertwined with the quiet story of Levin
(an autobiographical character) and his own quest for true love and
personal fulfillment.
This psychological masterpiece is considered to be one of the
greatest novels of world literature.
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Anna Karenina (Hardcover)
Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy; Translated by Constance Garnett
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R823
Discovery Miles 8 230
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Dostoevsky's NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND is a psychological study of
the deepest darkest skeletons in the closet of the human mind. The
first novel from Dostoevsky's mature second period works, divided
in two parts, presents an unnamed protagonist, a twisted angry
student, and his worldview. It is one proud man's cry for help and
perverse rejection of the world around him.
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