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The narrator walks the streets of St. Petersburg at night, contemplating how ridiculous his life is.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky é um escritor russo. Considerado um dos maiores romancistas russos, ele influenciou muitos escritores e filósofos. Tendo-se tornado um segundo tenente, demitiu-se do exército em 1859 e envolveu-se completamente na escrita.

 Записки из мертвого дома - произведение Федора Достоевского, носит документальный характер и знакомит с бытом заключённых преступников в Сибири второй половины XIX века, основано на воспоминаниях писателя о его заключении в Омском остроге. 

When brilliant but penniless pianist Alexei is hired to tutor the 10-year-old daughter of Russian oligarch Mikhail, he is drawn into a world of chance, obsession and violence. Hopelessly infatuated with Mikhail's beautiful stepdaughter, Polina, he vows to do anything to win her love: and so begins his involvement in a dangerous, high-stakes game.

"Бедные люди" - роман Федора Михайловича Достоевского, первое оригинальное печатное произведение русского писателя. Роман представляет собой пятьдесят четыре письма, которыми обменялись главные герои — пожилой чиновник Макар Алексеевич Девушкин и девушка-сирота Варвара Алексеевна Доброселова.

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) is considered one of the greatest Russian novelists of all time. He was a unique and brilliant man, whose life and energy comes through in his letters which he wrote to his close friends and family. These letters have become a classic and, along with his novels, have been translated into 170 languages.

Crime and Punishment is the second of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's full-length novels following his return from 5 years of exile in Siberia, and is considered the first great novel of his "mature" period of writing. The novel focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in St. Petersburg who formulates and executes a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her cash. Raskolnikov, in an attempt to defend his actions, argues that with the pawnbroker's money he can perform good deeds to counterbalance the crime while ridding the world of a vermin, ...

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novella, White Nights, was originally published in 1848. The tender narrative is an appealing blend of realism and romanticism. A daydreamer, the hero is a lonely young man in Saint Petersburg who lives in a fantasy world. After a chance encounter, he falls in love with a young woman, Nastenka, whom he meets in the same place over four nights. Sharing a sense of alienation, they exchange information on their respective backgrounds and grow fond of one another in a short time.

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s "A Faint Heart" (1848) is a short story about two close friends, Arkady Ivanovitch Nefedevitch and Vasya Shumkov. After a lengthy rumination on their names, Dostoevsky recounts the tale of how one of them is so overwhelmed by his good fortunate and happiness that he becomes consumed by it. The prospect of marrying his sweetheart brings him such euphoric joy that he experiences a masochistic transformation because the world wasn’t equally happy. So he ends up in an institution and his bride-to-be marries another.

A Christmas story from famed author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Not all Christmases seem merry and not all seem bright. Yet even in the darkest of Christmases, there may be a celebration to which few are invited. Sad at times, heartwarming at others - memorable throughout.

This volume offers a contrasting selection of stories and tales from the master of psychology Fyodor Dostoyevsky and heartwarming storyteller Beatrix Potter. The collection includes 'An Honest Thief' and 'The Peasant Marey' by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; and 'The Tale of Peter Rabbit', 'The Tale of Benjamin Bunny' and 'The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies' by Beatrix Potter. Read in English, unabridged.

Dostoevsky’s Underground Man is a composite of the tormented clerk and the frustrated dreamer of his earlier stories, but his Notes from the Underground is a precursor of his great later novels and their central concern with the nature of free will. Initially musing on his “sickness” and the detested notion of self-interest, the maladjusted and willful Underground Man turns to a series of incidents from years earlier.

Alexei Ivanovich is a Russian tutor working in Germany. His employer, the General, is waiting for his wealthy grandmother to die to pay off his debts so that he can marry Mademoiselle Blanche, while Alexei is in love with the General's beautiful but not so kind stepdaughter, Polina, who is scornful of his devotion to her. Alexei dramatically offers to kill himself for Polina, but she asks him instead to place a bet for her at the roulette table of the local casino. Alexei does, and he wins, but still he cannot sway her.

Povest' Fyodora Mihaylovicha Dostoevskogo "Dyadyushkin son" zanimaet osoboe i pochetnoe mesto v russkoy literature. Ona yavlyaetsya prologom k takim shedevram pisatelya, kak "Idiot", "Brat'ya Karamazovy" ili "Prestuplenie i nakazanie". Povest' byla opublikovana v Sankt-Peterburge v 1859 godu vmeste s povest'yu "Selo Stepanchikovo i ego obitateli", posle vozvrashcheniya F. M. Dostoevskogo posle katorgi, otbytiya voinskoy povinnosti i ssylki. "Dyadyushkin son" - anekdotichnaya i grustnaya istoriya o tom, kak starogo knyazya edva ne naduli s zhenit'boy na "krasavice iz krasavic" mordasovskogo zaholust'ya.

A poignant and profound collection of stories which explore the theme of childhood and a child's perspective on the world. "The Dabblers" by W. F. Harvey. "The Doll’s House" by Katherine Mansfield. "The Roman Road" by Kenneth Grahame. "The Sailor Uncle" by Mary Lamb. "The Egg" by Sherwood Anderson. "Gabriel-Ernest" by Saki. "A Child’s Revenge" by Paul Bourget. "The Apple Tree" by Katherine Mansfield. "A Falling Out" by Kenneth Grahame. "The Christmas Tree and the Wedding" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A groundbreaking new translation of Dostoyevsky's most radical work of fiction. In the depths of a cellar in St. Petersburg, a civil servant spews forth a passionate and furious note on the ills of society. The underground man's manifesto reveals his erratic, self-contradictory, and even sadistic nature. Yet in Dostoyevsky's most extreme and disturbing character, there is the uncomfortable flicker of recognition of the human condition. When the narrator ventures above ground, he attends a dinner with a group of old school friends.

Raskolnikov, a student in St. Petersburg, murders an old woman, a money-lender, to prove his theory that violence purifies the strong. But no sooner is the deed done than Raskolnikov begins to feel remorse. What follows is one of the greatest psychological studies in world literature.

Fully restored and remastered, Heritage Media presents the greatest of vintage artists in classic dramas from the literature of Russia. Here is the legendary Laurence Olivier starring in ‘The Inspector General’, adapted from the original tale by Nikolai Gogol and Trevor Howard starring in 'Judgment' adapted from the original tale by Fyodor Dostoevsky.Theatre Royal is a unique series of classic radio dramas produced in the 1950's by the late Harry Alan Towers.

Fyodor Dostoevesky's Crime and Punishment, published in 1866, anticipated a series of psychological novels exploring the nature of good and evil. In this loose adaptation, set in the mid-20th century, Trevor Howard plays Dr. John Farington, an eminent and respected psychiatrist who harbours a guilty secret.

Neizvestnyy rasskazchik povestvuet o tom, chto ego obychno sderzhannaya i molchalivaya kuharka Agrafena nastoychivo poprosila kak-to svoego hozyaina pustit' v dom odnogo zhil'ca iz "byvalyh lyudey": otstavnogo soldata Astafiya Ivanovicha. Hozyain soglasilsya, i vot odnazhdy v otsutstvie Agrafeny i Astafiya Ivanovicha, no v prisutstvie hozyaina-rasskazchika v dom pronik vor i unyos hozyayskuyu bekeshu. Uznav ob ehtom, vernuvshiysya Astafiy Ivanovich ves'ma ogorchilsya i pobezhal vdogonku za zhulikom, no, vernuvshis' s pustymi rukami, rasskazal istoriyu o "chestnom vore", kotoraya proizoshla za dva goda do ehtogo s nim samim.