Constance Garnett

Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a titanic figure among the world's great authors, and The Brothers Karamazov is often hailed as his finest novel....

After spending four years in a Siberian penal settlement, during which time he underwent a religious conversion, Dostoevsky developed a keen ability for deep character analysis....

This is an intense detective thriller instilled with philosophical, religious, and social commentary....

Living in a squalid room in St. Petersburg, the indigent but proud Rodion Raskolnikov believes he is above society. Obsessed with the idea of breaking the law, Raskolnikov resolves to kill an old pawnbroker for her cash....

This magnificent novel is about the murder of a miserly, aged pawnbroker and her younger sister by a radical, destitute St. Petersburg student named Raskolnikov....

The Brothers Karamazov is Dostoevsky's crowning life work and stands among the best novels in world literature....

In this work, we follow the unnamed narrator of the story, who, disillusioned by the oppression and corruption of the society in which he lives, withdraws from that society into the underground....

Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment is universally regarded as one of literature's finest...

Beautiful, popular, and fortunate, Anna Karenina is an upright wife and mother. But her passionless marriage to a senior statesman leads her into the arms of Count Alexey Vronsky. The dashing cavalry officer stokes in her something exciting and defiant....

This extraordinary novel is a recital of his findings, told in the story of four brothers....

Also known as Demons, The Possessed is a powerful socio-political novel about revolutionary ideas and the radicals behind them. It follows a political terrorist who leads a group of nihilists....

In Fyodor Dostoyevsky's existentialist novel Notes from the Underground, a disturbed human is bent on humilating others for his own enjoyment. The Gambler follows the obsessions and anxieties of Ivanovitch, a sympathetic character who has given in to the forces of addiction....

Gogol's classic takes a sharp but humorous look at life in all its strata but especially the devious complexities in Russia, with its landowners and serfs....

Of Ostrovsky's 47 plays, one of the best known is The Storm, the portrait of an idealistic young woman trapped in a world of crushing and venal orthodoxy. The Storm formed the basis of Janacek's opera, Katya Kabanova....

Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a titanic among the world's great authors, and The Brothers Karamazov is often hailed as his finest novel....