I'd die happy if I could finish this final novel, for I would have expressed myself completely." --DostoevskyIn 1880 ...more

At once a tragic love story pitting a fragile heart against the forces of society, this novel truly succeeds as a conversation of ideas. The long book is very ...more

Fyodor Dostoevsky completed his final novel— The Brothers Karamazov—in 1880. A work of universal appeal and significance, his exploration of good and evil ...more

Dostoevsky's last novel is considered his masterpiece and tells the story of a family and the appetites and struggles that lead to patricide. With rich character development ...more

This epic tells the story of Raskolnikov, a student who believes he is superior and entitled. He commits a crime and the book traces his downfall. After being shipped off to ...more

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A History of Women's Writing in Russia offers a comprehensive account of the lives and works of Russia's women writers from the Middle Ages to the present. Based on original ...more

Crossroad of Arts, Crossroad of Cultures is the first book-length study of the aesthetic similarities between the French Parnassians, a 19th-century group ...more

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