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Le premier grand roman (1861) de Dostoïevski, alors âgé de quarante ans, écrit à son retour de Sibérie. Il a eu, depuis sa parution, plus de lecteurs que L'Idiot. Publié en feuilleton, c'est un roman d'aventures sentimental et social à la manière d'Eugène Sue et de Dickens. La société de Saint-Pétersbourg est vue comme par Balzac, les femmes ressemblent à des héroïnes de George Sand. Le romanesque est fortement ancré dans la vie de l'écrivain, qui se fond dans la vie de Saint-Pétersbourg telle qu'il la connaît. Il y explore la misère humaine avec une curiosité passionnée doublée de révolte. Cette ville flottante, brumeuse, est vue par un personnage de rêveur, image de l'auteur. Par-delà, la vision du monde de Dostoïevski est déjà présente : l'humanité est en train de courir à sa perte. C'est cette évolution que le génial romancier montre ici pour la première fois.

First published in Germany in 1894, after being banned in Russia, The Kingdom of God Is within You reveals Tolstoy’s world outlook after his conversion to Christianity. He argues that the kingdom of God is within reach of all. The core of the book deals with his nonresistance to evil, a principle Tolstoy passionately advocated. Gandhi was won over by the book. Tolstoy clearly describes the hazards that bullying governments and false beliefs produced. “The situation of the Christian part of humanity—with its prisons, forced labor, gallows, saloons, brothels, constantly increasing armaments, and millions of confused people ready like trained hounds to attack anyone against whom their masters set them—this situation would be terrible if it were the product of coercion, but it is above all the product of public opinion.” Abhorring the violence of revolution, Tolstoy calls on Christians to remember that the only guide for their actions is to be found in the divine principle dwelling within them, which in no sense can be checked or governed by anyone or anything else.

A collection of one novella and six short stories - The Gambler, Bobok, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, A Christmas Party and a Wedding, A Nasty Story and The Meek One.

Returning to Russia from Italy, twenty-three-year-old Dimitry Sanin breaks his journey in Frankfurt. There, he encounters the beautiful Gemma Roselli and falls in love. He decides to begin a new life and sell his Russian estates. But when he meets the potential buyer, Madame Polozov, his vulnerability makes him prey for a destructive infatuation.

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Presented here in a masterful new translation by Michael Pursglove, this landmark collection established the literary reputation of the author, who considered it his most significant contribution to Russian literature, and is universally regarded as a milestone in the Russian realist tradition.

One of the most celebrated novels by the author of Fathers and Children, presented with pictures and a section on his life and works On his way back to Russia after some years spent in the West, Grigory Mikhailovich Litvinov, the son of a retired official of merchant stock, stops over in Baden-Baden to meet his fiancée Tatyana. However, a chance encounter with his old flame, the manipulative Irina—now married to a general and a prominent figure in aristocratic expatriate circles—unearths feelings buried deep inside the young man's heart, derailing his plans for the future and throwing his life into turmoil. Around this love story Turgenev constructs a sharply satirical exposé of his countrymen, which famously embroiled its author in a heated quarrel with Dostoevsky. A melancholy evocation of impossible romance, Smoke represents the apogee of Turgenev's later fiction.

Tandis que de sa main gauche blessée il tenait l'assassin, il se mit à chercher, en tâtonnant de la droite, le cordon du rideau : cela dura très longtemps, enfin il le saisit et l'arracha. Lui-même fut surpris, plus tard, de l'effort extraordinaire que cela nécessita. Durant ces trois minutes, ni l'un ni l'autre ne laissèrent échapper un seul mot. On n'entendait que leur respiration oppressée et le bruit sourd de la lutte. Etant enfin parvenu à ligoter les bras de Pavel Pavlovitch ramenés derrière le dos, Veltchaninov le jeta à terre, se dressa, écarta le rideau et leva le store.

Seul l'être capable d'indépendance spirituelle est digne des grandes entreprises. Tel Napoléon qui n'hésita pas à ouvrir le feu sur une foule désarmée, Raskolnikov, qui admire le grand homme, se place au-dessus du commun des mortels. Les considérations théoriques qui le poussent à tuer une vieille usurière cohabitent en s'opposant dans l'esprit du héros et constituent l'essence même du roman. Pour Raskolnikov, le crime qu'il va commettre n'est que justice envers les hommes en général et les pauvres qui se sont fait abusés en particulier. "Nous acceptons d'être criminels pour que la terre se couvre enfin d'innocents", écrira Albert Camus. Mais cet idéal d'humanité s'accorde mal avec la conscience de supériorité qui anime le héros, en qualité de "surhomme", il se situe au-delà du bien et du mal. Fomenté avec un sang-froid mêlé de mysticisme, le meurtre tourne pourtant à l'échec. Le maigre butin ne peut satisfaire son idéal de justice, tandis que le crime loin de l'élever de la masse, l'abaisse parmi les hommes. Raskolnikov finira par se rendre et accepter la condamnation, par-là même, il accédera à la purification. Crime et Châtiment est le roman de la déchéance humaine, l'oeuvre essentielle du maître de la littérature russe.

The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky is a collection of some of the greatest works of Russian literature. Dostoevsky's novels are renowned for their exploration of the human psyche and the dark depths of the human soul. Constance Black Garnett's masterful translation ensures that the richness and beauty of Dostoevsky's writing is not lost in translation. This book is a must-read for all fans of Russian literature and anyone interested in the depth and complexity of the human condition.