The Idiot by Fyodor DostoyevskyRequirements: .MP3 reader, 615 MBOverview: One of the most influential authors from Russia’s Golden Age, Fyodor Dostoevsky left behind a vast collection of prized literary works, including Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov. In The Idiot, Prince Myshkin possesses a childlike innocence and trusting nature that leave him vulnerable to […]
Winter Notes on Summer Impressions by Fyodor DostoyevskyRequirements: .ePUB reader, 3MBOverview: n June 1862, Dostoevsky left Petersburg on his first excursion to Western Europe. Ostensibly making the trip to consult Western specialists about his epilepsy, he also wished to see first-hand the source of the Western ideas he believed were corrupting Russia. Over the course […]
The Russian Soul: Selections from A Writer’s Diary by Fyodor Dostoevsky by Fyodor DostoyevskyRequirements: ePUB or AZW3 Reader, 1.9MBOverview: Dosteovsky’s immediate impulse for embarking on A Writer’s Diary in 1873 was a desire to come into closer contact with his readers. Published in monthly instalments, it became a unique journalistic enterprise. Far more popular than […]
The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky by Fyodor DostoyevskyRequirements: ePUB or AZW3 Reader, 1.7MBOverview: This collection, unique to the Modern Library, gathers seven of Dostoevsky’s key works and shows him to be equally adept at the short story as with the novel. Exploring many of the same themes as in his longer works, these […]
Notes from the Underground, and The Gambler by Fyodor DostoyevskyRequirements: ePUB Reader, 2.1MBOverview: Notes from the Underground (1864) is one of the most profound works of nineteenth-century literature. A probing, speculative book, often regarded as a forerunner of the Existentialist movement, it examines the important political and philosophical questions that were current in Russia and […]