The Grand Inquisitor is a passage taken from Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel, The Brothers Karamazov. The story is a parable told by one brother, Ivan, to the other, Alyosha. Ivan is exploring the possibility that there is a personal benevolent God, and Aloysha, a monk is questioning his brothers thoughts on this.

This edition of one of the world's greatest novels--the classic story of justice, morality, and redemption set in19th-century Russia--features a new Afterword and a brand-new package. Revised reissue.

Russian novelist, Fyodor Dostevsky, was a fiction writer best known for his novel Crime and Punishment. His work explores political and social 19th century Russia. He was interested in spirituality and psychology. His work sparked the existentialist movement in the early 20 th century. This 1846 first novel of Dostovesky's was written in the form of correspondences between two cousins. As the reader delves deeper into the letters more is revealed about their lives.

A classic by a Russian master
Prince Myshkin, the idiot, is an almost comically innocent Christ figure in a land of sinners, one whose faith in beauty contrasts sharply with that of his society's.

Based on the 1875 novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, A Raw Youth is a drama of love, jealousy, death, and family relationships in a dissolute Russian society.

This edition preserves the excellent translation done by Constance Garnett, but with updated spelling and punctuation to meet the expectations of modern eyes. You will find this book easily readable and will readily enjoy the epic story within. ---Excerpt--- Raskolnikov was not used to crowds, and, as we said before, he avoided society of every sort, more especially of late. But now all at once he felt a desire to be with other people. Something new seemed to be taking place within him, and with it he felt a sort of thirst for company. He was so weary after a whole month of concentrated...

Crime and Punishment is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, first published in 1866. It was written after Dostoevsky's return from five years of exile in Siberia, where he was serving his sentence in camps similar to those of the infamous Soviet Gulag. Crime and Punishment deals with the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikove, a poor ex-student from St. Pertersburg who designs and executes a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her money. Raskolnikov reasons that with the pawnbroker's money he can perform good deeds to counterbalance crime,...

The Gambler was written by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The novel reflects Dostoevsky's addiction to roulette, which was not just a strong inspiration for the book, because Dostoevsky had to finish the novel to pay gambling debts.

Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's 'Notes From the Underground' tells the story of his tortured life.

A predecessor to such monumental works such as Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, Notes From Underground represents a turning point in Dostoyevsky's writing towards the more political side. 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. A dark and politically charged novel, "Notes From Underground" shows Dostoyevsky at his best.