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How far would you go to escape the real world? The underground man had always felt like an outsider. He doesn't want to be like other people, working in the 'ant-hill' of society. So he decides to withdraw from the world, scrawling a series of darkly sarcastic notes about the torment he is suffering. Angry and alienated, his only comfort is the humiliation of others. Is he going mad? Or is it the world around him that's insane? Books can change lives. Penguin Classics have inspired the imaginations of millions of readers over the world, transforming the way people think and feel forever. And now we have partnered with (RED) to bring you our selection of some of the best stories ever written, books are going to help save lives too.

This book contains the complete novels of Fyodor Dostoyevsky in the chronological order of their original publication.Poor FolkThe DoubleNotes From The UndergroundCrime and PunishmentThe GamblerThe IdiotThe Possessed (The Devils)A Raw YouthThe Dream of a Ridiculous ManThe Brothers Karamazov

The Brothers Karamazov is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, and is generally considered the culmination of his lifes work. Dostoevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger and completed in November 1880. Dostoevsky intended it to be the first part in an epic story titled The Life of a Great Sinner, but he died less than four months after its publication.The book portrays a parricide in which each of the murdered mans sons share a varying degree of complicity. On a deeper level, it is a spiritual drama of moral struggles concerning faith, doubt, reason, free will and modern Russia. Dostoevsky composed much of the novel in Staraya Russa, which is also the main setting of the novel.

Dostoevsky first planned this book as a "novel-pamphlet" in which he intended to "say everything" about Russia's liberal reformers, whom he loathed - particularly the Nihilists.

The Brothers Karamazov is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, and is generally considered the culmination of his lifes work. Dostoevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger and completed in November 1880. Dostoevsky intended it to be the first part in an epic story titled The Life of a Great Sinner, but he died less than four months after its publication.The book portrays a parricide in which each of the murdered mans sons share a varying degree of complicity. On a deeper level, it is a spiritual drama of moral struggles concerning faith, doubt, reason, free will and modern Russia. Dostoevsky composed much of the novel in Staraya Russa, which is also the main setting of the novel.

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Introducing the first in a long line of undergroundA" characters, Poor People, Dostoevsky's first full-length work of fiction, is a poignant, tragi-comic tale which foreshadows the greatness of his later novels. Presented as a series of letters between the humble copying-clerk Devushkin and a distant relative of his, the young Varenka, Poor People brings to the fore the underclass of St Petersburg, who live at the margins of society in the most appalling conditions and abject poverty. As Devushkin tries to help Varenka improve her plight by selling anything he can, he is reduced to even more desperate circumstances and seeks refuge in alcohol, looking on helplessly as the object of his impossible love is taken away from him.

Un prestamista cuarentón, militar retirado, concierta el matrimonio con una joven huerfana de dieciseis años, para rescatarla de la pobreza. Al empezar el relato -escrupuloso y magistral como pocos en la construccion de la figura del narrador-, el cadaver de la muchacha lleva tendido seis horas delante de el. ¿Que ha pasado? En La mansa, publicada dentro del Diario de un escritor en noviembre de 1876, Dostoievski abre la puerta a la intimidad de una pareja, desvela todo lo que oculta una relacion institucionalmente determinada por la economia y la sumision, y señala, al mismo tiempo, un inesperado camino a la salvacion y a la lucidez. Pero ¿que puede haber al final del camino, cuando el mundo se compone de "hombres solos rodeados de silencio"? Esta nouvelle figura sin duda entre las obras maestras de Dostoievski. Como dijo Knut Hansum, "un libro muy pequeñito, pero para nosotros demasiado grande, inalcanzablemente grande".

Il principe Myskin, ultimo erede di una nobile famiglia decaduta, e "uno che cerca nell'intimo della sua coscienza le motivazioni essenziali del suo modo di essere", mosso dalla candida fede nella fratellanza umana e dal proposito di fare il proprio dovere con onesta e sincerita. Tornato a Pietroburgo dopo un lungo soggiorno in Svizzera per curarsi dell'epilessia, viene travolto dalla vicenda di Nastas'ja Filippovna. Decide di chiederla in moglie per sottrarla ai suoi due contendenti: il violento Rogozin, che per un amore folle alza la propria offerta in denaro, e il segretario del generale Epancim, Ganja, che mira invece alla dote. Ma Nastas'ja, turbata dalla proposta, fugge con Rogozin, mentre del principe si innamora Aglaja, la figlia del generale.