* Illustrated with the original images. * Annotated with concise introduction, including analysis of Fyodor Dostoevsky's works as well as modern view on Dostoevsky's historical background. * Original footnotes are hyperlinked for easy reference. * The collection includes alphabetical and chronological indexes of Dostoevsky's works. * Each book features its own active Table of Contents. * Includes Fyodor Dostoevsky's Biography. * Includes Fyodor Dostoevsky's most famous quotes. * Includes analysis of Fyodor Dostoevsky's literary style. * Includes a translation of “The Idiot” by Constance Garnett rarely available in digital publications. * All Annotated Classics books are beautifully designed for easy reading and navigation on e-Readers and mobile devices.
CONTENTS:
NOVELS: The Brothers Karamazov (Translated by Constance Garnett) Crime and Punishment (Translated by Constance Garnett) The Double: A Petersburg Poem (Translated by Constance Garnett) The Gambler (Translated by CJ Hogarth) The House of the Dead: or, Prison life in Siberia (Translated by H. S. Edwards) The Idiot (Translated by Constance Garnett) The Insulted and Humiliated or The Insulted and Injured (Translated by Constance Garnett) Notes from the Underground (Translated by Constance Garnett) Poor Folk (Translated by CJ Hogarth) The Possessed or The Devils (Translated by Constance Garnett) The Raw Youth or The Adolescent (Translated by Constance Garnett)
SHORT STORIES: Another Man's Wife (Translated by Constance Garnett) Bobok (Translated by Constance Garnett) The Christmas Tree and the Wedding (Translated by Thomas Seltzer) The Crocodile (Translated by Constance Garnett) The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (Translated by Constance Garnett) A Faint Heart (Translated by Constance Garnett) A Gentle Spirit (Translated by Constance Garnett) The Grand Inquisitor (Translated by H.P. Blavatsky) The Heavenly Christmas Tree (Translated by Constance Garnett) An Honest Thief (Translated by Constance Garnett) A Little Hero (Translated by Constance Garnett) The Little Orphan A Novel in Nine Letters (Translated by Constance Garnett) The Peasant Marey (Translated by Constance Garnett) Polzunkov (Translated by Constance Garnett) Mr. Prohartchin (Translated by Constance Garnett) An Unpleasant Predicament (Translated by Constance Garnett) White Nights (Translated by Constance Garnett)
BIOGRAPHY & HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: Fyodor Dostoevsky Biography Essays on Russian Novelists by William Lyon Phelps A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections by Isabel F. Hapgood Dostoevsky's Russia Russian Empire Russian Orthodox Church
Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky composed short stories, essays, and journals. His literature explores humans in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century and engages with a variety of philosophies and themes. People most acclaimed his Demons(1872) .
Many literary critics rate him among the greatest authors of world literature and consider multiple books written by him to be highly influential masterpieces. They consider his Notes from Underground of the first existentialist literature. He is also well regarded as a philosopher and theologian.
Ninety-six hours of classic fiction. From sheer volume alone this is probably worth it. The performance was decent: character voices were great but the narrative voice was a little off for me (call it a push). The stories are of course classics … one of which (Crime and Punishment) I had already read in High School many eons ago and didn’t particularly care for it (I have issues with the protagonist); however, I recently had the Brothers Karamazov recommended to me and rather than reading through the another huge story by a famous author for whom I should appreciate his works more than I do, I figured an audiobook would be a good way to do this …
And I was absolutely spot on here. In my mind, it is the only way to “casually” read Dostoyevsky (Yes, I know that is heresy) … save the reading for your lit class when you have to dig into weird philosophical concepts that you have small interest in. As an audiobook, it was really wasn’t so bad.
I was given this free advance listener copy (ALC) audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
Salvo algunos "errores de dedo", vale la pena, leer una de las obras cumbres de la literatura universal, y después, una novela corta muy del estilo del maestro Dostoyevski. Si no lo han leído, valga como presentación. Si ya lo han hecho, como yo, el placer de leerlo de nuevo es inmenso.
It's one thing to study existentialism and nihilism and the results of secularism from a purely arm's length philosophy department, but when you take the plunge into the mind, heart, shoes, and soiled clothes of the man in the cellar, this mouse, as he calls himself, you begin to glimpse why Dostoyevsky is now recognized to have been a genius. He saw where we were headed and tried to warn us.