Fyodor Dostoyevski, read by Dick Hill, Tantor Media, unabridged, 19 CDs, 23.5 hrs., $45.99 ISBN 978-1-4001-1603-4
Dostoyevski's classic novel of murder and guilt, featuring the conflicted killer Raskolnikov and his intellectually nimble antagonist Porfiry Petrovich, is read by the well-regarded Dick Hill. The combination should make for a must-listen audiobook,
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Fyodor M. Dostoevsky, Author, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Author, Richard Pevear, Translator Vintage Books USA $16.95 (592p) ISBN 978-0-679-73450-5
An acclaimed new translation of the classic Russian novel. (Mar.)
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Fyodor M. Dostoevsky, Author, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Author, Richard Pevear, Translator Everyman's Library $25 (672p) ISBN 978-0-375-41392-6
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, justly acclaimed for their translations of such Russian classics as Gogol's Dead Souls and Dostoyevski's The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment and Notes from Underground, have now undertaken another
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Fyodor M. Dostoevsky, Author, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Author, Kenneth Lantz, Translator Northwestern University Press $46 (644p) ISBN 978-0-8101-1101-1
This concluding volume of Dostoevsky's experimental one-man journal (he was its editor, publisher and sole contributor until his death in 1881) is a melange of political commentary, observations on current events, reportage of sensational murders,...
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Fyodor M. Dostoevsky, Author, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Author, Joseph Frank, Editor Rutgers University Press $59 (572p) ISBN 978-0-8135-1185-6
Dostoyevsky's letters constitute the most intimate portrait of him we have. Through their raw, direct, emotional voice we see him in prison fighting off the despair of solitary confinement; in Siberia, mingling with peasant, fellow prisoners; and...
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Fyodor M. Dostoevsky, Author, Kenneth Lantz, Translator, Gary Saul Morson, Introduction by Northwestern University Press $58 (805p) ISBN 978-0-8101-1094-6
Was Dostoevsky's A Writer's Diary ``a daring experiment in form,'' an integral work of art, as Morson claims, or was this monthly periodical--with Dostoevsky its editor, publisher and sole contributor--a mere hodge-podge of articles, sketches,...
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Fyodor M. Dostoevsky, Author, David A. Lowe, Translator Ardis Publishers $35 (0p) ISBN 978-0-88233-926-9
The second installment in a projected five-volume series of Dostoevsky's complete correspondence affords a marvelous self-portrait of the Russian novelist teetering between farce and tragedy as he staved off blood-thirsty creditors while seeking...
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Fyodor M. Dostoevsky, Author, Ronald Meyer, Editor, David A. Lowe, Editor Ardis Publishers $35 (275p) ISBN 978-0-88233-897-2
A potent mixture of spontaneous patter, soul-searching, manic highs and lows, these letters are as Dostoevskian as anything the great Russian novelist ever wrote. Three intertwined topics keep recurring: his thirst for literary fame, his constant...
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Fyodor M. Dostoevsky, Author, David A. Lowe, Editor Ardis Publishers $35 (0p) ISBN 978-0-88233-542-1
Dostoevsky (1821-1881) lived and wrote with feverish intensity, as these letters from his self-exile in Western Europe attest. As he struggles to work his way out of debt, sues his ``scoundrel'' publisher for nonpayment, mourns the death of his...
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Fyodor M. Dostoevsky, Author, David A. Lowe, Editor Ardis Publishers $35 (350p) ISBN 978-0-88233-544-5
Of principal interest in this, the fifth and final volume of Dostoevsky's letters are his tender, passionate missives to his second wife, Anna Grigoryevna Snitkina, whose practicality gave him ballast, and his shoptalk on The Brothers Karamazov ,...
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