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    Fyodor Dostoevsky

    Fyodor Mikailovich Dostoevsky’s life was as dark and dramatic as the great novels he wrote. He was born in Moscow in 1821. A short first novel, Poor Folk (1846), brought him instant success, but his writing career was cut short by his arrest for alleged subversion against Tsar Nicholas I in 1849. His prison experiences coupled with his conversion to a profoundly religious philosophy formed the basis for his great novels. But it was his fortuitous marriage to Anna Snitkina, following a period of utter destitution brought about by his compulsive gambling, that gave Dostoevsky the emotional stability to complete Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1868–1869), The Possessed (1871–1872), and The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880). When Dostoevsky died in 1881, he left a legacy of masterworks that influenced the great thinkers and writers of the Western world and immortalized him as a giant among writers of world literature.
    Notes from Underground
    Notes from Underground
    Introduction by Richard Pevear
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    9781400041916
    $30.00 US
    Hardcover
    Mar 23, 2004
    Everyman's Library
    Crime and Punishment
    Crime and Punishment
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    9780553211757
    $8.95 US
    Mass Market Paperback
    Oct 15, 1996
    Bantam Classics
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    The Brothers Karamazov
    The Brothers Karamazov
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    9780553212167
    $9.99 US
    Mass Market Paperback
    Apr 01, 1984
    Bantam Classics
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    Notes From Underground
    Notes From Underground
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    9780553211443
    $6.99 US
    Mass Market Paperback
    Oct 01, 1983
    Bantam Classics
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB

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    Notes from Underground
    Notes from Underground
    Introduction by Richard Pevear
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    9781400041916
    $30.00 US
    Hardcover
    Mar 23, 2004
    Everyman's Library
    Crime and Punishment
    Crime and Punishment
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    9780553211757
    $8.95 US
    Mass Market Paperback
    Oct 15, 1996
    Bantam Classics
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    The Brothers Karamazov
    The Brothers Karamazov
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    9780553212167
    $9.99 US
    Mass Market Paperback
    Apr 01, 1984
    Bantam Classics
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    Notes From Underground
    Notes From Underground
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    9780553211443
    $6.99 US
    Mass Market Paperback
    Oct 01, 1983
    Bantam Classics
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB

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