Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, sometimes transliterated Dostoyevsky, was a Russian novelist, philosopher, short story writer, essayist, and journalist
Varvara Dobroselova and Makar Devushkin are second cousins twice-removed and live across from each other on the same street in terrible apartments. Devushkin's, for example, is merely a portioned-off section of the kitchen, and he lives with several...
The first-person narrative is told from the point of view of Alexei Ivanovich, a tutor working for a Russian family living in a suite at a German hotel. The patriarch of the family, The General, is indebted to the Frenchman de Grieux and has mortgage...
The narrator describes his experience walking in the streets of St. Petersburg. He loves the city at night, and feels comfortable in it. He no longer feels comfortable during the day because all the people he is used to seeing are not there. He drew...
A troubled Varvara Petrovna has just returned from Switzerland where she has been visiting Nikolai Vsevolodovich. She berates Stepan Trofimovich for his financial irresponsibility, but her main preoccupation is an "intrigue" she encountered in Switze...
The tale is told by Ivan with brief interruptive questions by Alyosha. In the tale, Christ comes back to Earth in Seville at the time of the Inquisition. He performs a number of miracles (echoing miracles from the Gospels). The people recognize him a...
Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, a former law student, lives in extreme poverty in a tiny, rented room in Saint Petersburg. Isolated and antisocial, he has abandoned all attempts to support himself, and is brooding obsessively on a scheme he has devise...
Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground is one of the world's most renowned novels. This book explores visions of the self between the 19th and 20th centuries. The anonymous narrator in this book makes one of the most influential expressions in the liter...
Returning from a sanitarium held in Switzerland, Prince Myshkin finds himself in an interesting love triangle. There are two women in the story, Nastasya and Aglaia. Nastasya is infamous, Aglaia is hungry for money. In this interesting spiral of love...
The Brothers Karamazov could be a kill puzzle, a court dramatization, and an investigation of suggestive contention in a arrangement of triangular cherish issues including the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his th...
