Young Prince Mishkin is that rare thing - a "completely beautiful human being". He is honest, humble, generous, and selfless, but unfortunately these traits mean he is often mistaken for an idiot. Upon his return to St. Petersburg, after being away at a Swiss...

A masterpiece of guilt and redemption that transforms the sordid story of an old woman s murder into the nineteenth century s profoundest and most compelling philosophical novel.ʥ ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME Raskolnikov, an impoverished...

Award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky give us a brilliantly faithful rendition of this classic novel, in all its tragedy and tormented comedy. In this second edition, they have updated their translation in honor of the 200th anniversary of Dostoevsky s birth. One...

he Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the wicked and sentimental Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan;...

The narrator and protagonist of Dostoevsky s novel The Adolescent(first published in English as A Raw Youth) is Arkady Dolgoruky, a na ve 19-year-old boy bursting with ambition and opinions. The illegitimate son of a dissipated landowner, he is torn between his desire to...

The ends justifies the means. The Prince is a 16th-century political treatise written by Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccol Machiavelli as an instruction guide for new princes and royals. The general theme of The Prince is of accepting that the aims of princes...

 

Boris Pasternak s widely acclaimed novel comes gloriously to life in a magnificent new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the award-winning translators of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, and to whom, The New York Review of Books declared, the English-speaking world...

A New York Times Notable Book of 2018"Wilson s language is fresh, unpretentious and lean It is rare to find a translation that is at once so effortlessly easy to read and so rigorously considered." Madeline Miller, author of CirceComposed at the rosy-fingered dawn...

Pride & Prejudice is one of the most popular novels in the English language that continues to win the hearts and minds of readers around the world, thanks to its delightful heroine, unforgettable cast of comic characters, witty dialog, and satisfying romantic plot. From...

The first real expression of Dostoevsky's genius, The Double is a surprisingly modern hallucinatory nightmare in which a minor official named Goliadkin becomes aware of a mysterious doppelg nger a man who has his name and his face and who gradually and relentlessly begins...

Hard Times is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book appraises English society and is aimed at highlighting the social and economic pressures of the times.

The Iliad is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the...

 The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized and sometimes outraged millions of readers. Nominated as one of America s best-loved novels by PBS s The Great American ReadFirst published in 1939, Steinbeck s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great...

Charlotte Bront s moving masterpiece the novel that has been teaching true strength of character for generations (The Guardian). Nominated as one of America s best-loved novels by PBS s The Great American Read A novel of intense power and intrigue, Jane Eyre has...

As Scheherezade proved long ago, good stories make the best bedtime entertainment. The tales collected here represent the essence of the storyteller s art, with its ancient roots in fantastical legends and tales told around a fire.In Bedtime Stories, great writers of the past...

A masterpiece of 20th century literature from F. Scott Fitzgerald, the preeminent chronicler of the Jazz Age a term he coined. This classic work encapsulating the decadence and excess of the 1920s Jazz Age follows the unassuming Nick Carraway on his search for the...

Product "On what slender threads do life and fortune hang." Nominated as one of America s best-loved novels by PBS s The Great American Read Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of...