Classics & Literature
A Gentle Spirit
Dostoevsky presents the troubled confession of a pawnbroker reflecting on his marriage, pride, cruelty, guilt, and the desperation that ends in tragedy
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Books by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Classics & Literature
Bobok
Dostoevsky’s darkly comic story imagines dead people continuing to speak in a cemetery, using their conversations to probe hypocrisy, morality, and freedom from social restraints
Mystery & Detective
Crime and punishment
Crime and Punishment follows Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished former student in St. Petersburg who convinces himself that certain extraordinary people have the right to break ordinary moral laws if their actions serve a greater purpose
Philosophy & Ideas
Notes from Underground
A bitter, self-contradictory narrator argues with the idea that human beings can be neatly explained by rational self-interest. The book is short, strange and psychologically intense, making it a strong bridge from philosophical argument into philosophical fiction
Classics & Literature
Poor Folk
Dostoevsky's first published novel is told through letters between two poor acquaintances whose correspondence reveals loneliness, dignity, love, poverty, and the humiliations of social dependence
Philosophy & Ideas
The Adolescent
Dostoevsky follows the ambitious and emotionally volatile Arkady Dolgoruky as he struggles with identity, money, status, family, and his dream of becoming independent
Philosophy & Ideas
The Brothers Karamazov
Dostoevsky uses a family murder case to stage arguments about faith, freedom, suffering, responsibility and the problem of evil
Philosophy & Ideas
The Devils
A political and psychological novel about radical ideas, group dynamics, ambition and the destructive consequences of turning abstractions into total commitments
Philosophy & Ideas
The Double
A clerk’s world destabilizes when a double appears who seems to possess the social confidence the protagonist lacks
Philosophy & Ideas
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
Dostoevsky's narrator, driven to despair, falls asleep and dreams of a harmonious world; the vision turns into a meditation on sin, freedom, suffering, faith, and renewal
Philosophy & Ideas
The Gambler
A volatile story of gambling, obsession, pride and dependence in which money becomes inseparable from emotion and status
Philosophy & Ideas
The Grand Inquisitor
A famous chapter from Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov in which an imagined encounter between Christ and a Grand Inquisitor explores freedom, faith, authority, and human weakness
Philosophy & Ideas
The Idiot
Prince Myshkin’s openness and innocence collide with a social world shaped by status, desire, money and emotional manipulation
Classics & Literature
White Nights
A short Petersburg story about a lonely narrator who experiences an intense connection that may be meaningful precisely because it is temporary
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