The Idiot audiobook
Fyodor DOSTOYEVSKY (1821 - 1881), translated by Eva M. MARTIN ( - )
The extraordinary child-adult Prince Myshkin, confined for several years in a Swiss sanatorium suffering from severe epilepsy, returns to Russia to claim his inheritance and to find a place in healthy human society. The teeming St Petersburg community he enters is far from receptive to an innocent like himself, despite some early successes and relentless pursuit by grotesque fortune-hunters. His naive gaucheries Read more [...]
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Crime and Punishment audiobook
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881)
Translated by Constance Garnett (1861-1946)
Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, an impoverished St. Petersburg student who formulates and executes a plan to kill a hated, unscrupulous pawnbroker for her money, thereby solving his financial problems and at the same time, he argues, ridding the world of evil.
Crime and Punishment is considered by many as the first Read more [...]
The Brothers Karamazov audiobook
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881)
Translated by Constance Garnett (1861-1946)
The Brothers Karamazov (Russian: Братья Карамазовы) is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, and is generally considered the culmination of his life's work. The book portrays a parricide in which each of a murdered man's sons share a varying degree of complicity. The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel that explores deep into the Read more [...]