The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel that enters deeply into the ethical debates of God, free will, and morality. It is a spiritual drama of moral struggles...

This novel by Dostoyevsky is a book that dramatizes the cultural and political troubles of Russia in the mid-19th century. It tells the story of a small cell of nihilist...

There are thieves and there are thieves. And I have happened to come across an honest thief. But how can a thief be honest? One of Dostoyevskiy's short masterpieces tells a story...

It must have happened on Christmas Eve in some great town in a time of terrible frost. I have a vision of a boy, a little boy, six years old or even younger. This boy woke up that...

Dostoevsky was still a student when he started writing Poor Folk. His parents were very hard-working, but so poor that they lived with their five children in only two rooms. This...

This book is a novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky that chronicles the life of a young, Alexei Ivanovich, a tutor who works for a Russian family. The Patriarch of the family, the General,...

Is murder is permissible in pursuit of a higher purpose? Meet Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in St. Petersburg who formulates and executes a plan to kill an unscrupulous...

White Nights, a sentimental story from the diary of a dreamer, is told in first person by a nameless narrator who lives alone in St. Petersburg and suffers from loneliness and the...

The story is narrated by a young author, Vanya, who has just released his first novel. It bears an obvious resemblance to Dostoyevsky's own first novel, Poor Folk. Vanya's...

A true story of how a gentleman of a certain age and of respectable appearance was swallowed alive by the crocodile in the Arcade, and of the consequences that followed.