Crime And Punishment Royal Collectors Edition Case Laminate Hardcover With Jacket

Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher : Royal Classics
ISBN 13 : 9781774378564
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crime and Punishment (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by Royal Classics. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rodion Raskolnikov kills an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her cash, defending his actions by arguing that with the pawnbroker's money he can perform good deeds to counterbalance the crime, while ridding the world of a vermin.

Author : Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher : Royal Classics
ISBN 13 : 9781774761243
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Brothers Karamazov (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) written by Fyodor Dostoevsky and published by Royal Classics. This book was released on 2021-01-24 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fyodor three son's, the youthful Alyosha, the impetuous Dmitri, and the logical Ivan, are involved in several triangular love affairs. Throughout their encounters, the family is confronted with love, murder, and an exhilarating trial.

Author : Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Idiot written by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-09 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In September 1867, when Dostoevsky began work on what was to become The Idiot, he was living in Switzerland with his new wife Anna Grigoryevna, having left Russia in order to escape his creditors. They were living in extreme poverty, and constantly had to borrow money or pawn their possessions. They were evicted from their lodgings five times for non-payment of rent, and by the time the novel was finished in January 1869 they had moved between four different cities in Switzerland and Italy. During this time Dostoevsky periodically fell into the grip of his gambling addiction and lost what little money they had on the roulette tables. He was subject to regular and severe epileptic seizures, including one while Anna was going into labor with their daughter Sofia, delaying their ability to go for a midwife. The baby died aged only three months, and Dostoevsky blamed himself for the loss. Dostoevsky's notebooks of 1867 reveal deep uncertainty as to the direction he was taking with the novel. Detailed plot outlines and character sketches were made, but were quickly abandoned and replaced with new ones. In one early draft, the character who was to become Prince Myshkin is an evil man who commits a series of terrible crimes, including the rape of his adopted sister (Nastasya Filippovna), and who only arrives at goodness by way of his conversion through Christ. By the end of the year, however, a new premise had been firmly adopted. In a letter to Apollon Maykov, Dostoevsky explained that his own desperate circumstances had "forced" him to seize on an idea that he had considered for some time but had been afraid of, feeling himself to be artistically unready for it. This was the idea to "depict a completely beautiful human being". Rather than bring a man to goodness, he wanted to start with a man who was already a truly Christian soul, someone who is essentially innocent and deeply compassionate, and test him against the psychological, social and political complexities of the modern Russian world. It was not only a matter of how the good man responded to that world, but of how it responded to him. Devising a series of scandalous scenes, he would "examine each character's emotions and record what each would do in response to Myshkin and to the other characters." The difficulty with this approach was that he himself did not know in advance how the characters were going to respond, and thus he was unable to pre-plan the plot or structure of the novel. Nonetheless, in January 1868 the first chapters of The Idiot were sent off to The Russian Messenger.

Author : Lev Nikolaevič Tolstoj
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1427043442
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anna Karenina written by Lev Nikolaevič Tolstoj and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 1944 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephen Greenblatt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136774203
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Learning to Curse written by Stephen Greenblatt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Greenblatt argued in these celebrated essays that the art of the Renaissance could only be understood in the context of the society from which it sprang. His approach - 'New Historicism' - drew from history, anthropology, Marxist theory, post-structuralism, and psychoanalysis and in the process, blew apart the academic boundaries insulating literature from the world around it. Learning to Curse charts the evolution of that approach and provides a vivid and compelling exploration of a complex and contradictory epoch.

Author : Marcus Aurelius
Publisher : Royal Classics
ISBN 13 : 9781774378335
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Meditations (Royal Collector's Edition) (Annotated) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) written by Marcus Aurelius and published by Royal Classics. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marcus Aurelius' private notes are a significant source of the modern understanding of ancient Stoic philosophy, and have been praised by fellow writers, philosophers, monarchs, and politicians centuries after his death.

Author : Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher : Royal Classics
ISBN 13 : 9781774762073
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Notes from the Underground (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) written by Fyodor Dostoevsky and published by Royal Classics. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notes from the Underground presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator, who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg. The first part of the story is told in monologue form, and attacks emerging Western philosophy. The second part of the book describes certain events that appear to be destroying and sometimes renewing the underground man, who acts as a first person, unreliable narrator and anti-hero. Notes from the Underground, is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Notes is considered by many to be one of the first existentialist novels. The narration by the Underground Man is laden with ideological allusions and complex conversations regarding the political climate of the time period. Using his fiction as a weapon of ideological discourse, Dostoevsky challenges the ideologies of his time, mainly nihilism and rational egoism. The seminal influence of the work has seen a wide impact on subsequent various works in the fields of philosophy, literature, and film. This case laminate collector's edition includes a Victorian inspired dust-jacket.

Author : Thomas de Quincey
Publisher : Gottfried & Fritz
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confessions of an English Opium-Eater written by Thomas de Quincey and published by Gottfried & Fritz. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book about opium usage and the effects of addiction on the authors life.

Author : Amy Tan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143119087
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hundred Secret Senses written by Amy Tan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-12-28 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "wisest and most captivating novel" (Boston Globe) from the author of the bestselling The Valley of Amazement and the new memoir Where the Past Begins Set in San Francisco and in a remote village of Southwestern China, Amy Tan's The Hundred Secret Senses is a tale of American assumptions shaken by Chinese ghosts and broadened with hope. In 1962, five-year-old Olivia meets the half-sister she never knew existed, eighteen-year-old Kwan from China, who sees ghosts with her "yin eyes." Decades later, Olivia describes her complicated relationship with her sister and her failing marriage, as Kwan reveals her story, sweeping the reader into the splendor and violence of mid-nineteenth century China. With her characteristic wisdom, grace, and humor, Tan conjures up a story of the inheritance of love, its secrets and senses, its illusions and truths.

Author : Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher : Royal Classics
ISBN 13 : 9781774761359
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Idiot (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) written by Fyodor Dostoevsky and published by Royal Classics. This book was released on 2021-01-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, a young man whose goodness, open-hearted simplicity and guilelessness lead many of the more worldly characters he encounters to mistakenly assume that he lacks intelligence and insight. As time passes, they begin to see the consequences of placing such a unique individual at the centre of the conflicts, desires, passions and egoism of worldly society, both for the man himself and for those with whom he becomes involved. The Idiot includes descriptions of some of Fyodor Dostoevsky's most intense personal ordeals, such as epilepsy and mock execution, and explores moral, spiritual and philosophical themes consequent upon them. The artistic method of conscientiously testing his central idea meant that Dostoevsky could not always predict where the plot was going as he was writing. His primary motivation in writing the novel was to subject his own highest ideal, that of true Christian love, to the crucible of contemporary Russian society. This case laminate collector's edition includes a Victorian inspired dust-jacket.