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Crime and Punishment
Translated with an Introduction and Notes
by David McDuff
Dostoyevsky’s masterpiece of modern
literature is a study in the psychology of
the criminal mind, an indictment of social
conditions, and an engrossing portrait of
Raskolnikov’s Russia.
656 pp. 978-0-14-044913-6 $14.00
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*Demons
Translated by Robert A. Maguire and
Ronald Meyer
Introduction by Robert L. Belknap
Savage and powerful yet lively and often
comic, Demons was inspired by a real-life
political murder and is a scathing and
eerily prescient indictment of those who
use violence to serve their beliefs.
928 pp. 978-0-14-144141-2 $16.00
The Devils
Translated with an Introduction by
David Magarshack
Denounced by radical critics as the work
of a reactionary, this powerful story of
Russian terrorists who plot destruction
only to murder one of their own seethes
with provocative political opinions.
704 pp. 978-0-14-044035-5 $14.00
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The Gambler/Bobok/A Nasty Story
Translated with an Introduction by
Jessie Coulson
Conveying all the intensity and futility
of an obsession, The Gambler is based
on Dostoyevsky’s firsthand experience;
“Bobok” and “A Nasty Story” are two of
the author’s best darkly comic stories.
240 pp. 978-0-14-044179-6 $14.00
The House of the Dead
Translated with an Introduction by
David McDuff
The four years Dostoyevsky spent in a
Siberian prison inform this portrait of
convicts, their diverse stories, and prison
life, rendered in almost documentary
detail.
368 pp. 978-0-14-044456-8 $12.00
The Idiot
Translated by David McDuff
Introduction by William Mills Todd III
At the center of a novel that has the plot
of a thriller, Dostoyevsky portrays the
Christlike figure of Prince Myshkin,
bringing readers face-to-face with human
suffering and spiritual compassion.
768 pp. 978-0-14-044792-7 $14.00
Netochka Nezvanova
Translated with an Introduction by
Jane Kentish
Written as a serial, this never-completed
first publication treats many of the themes
that dominate Dostoyevsky’s later great
novels.
176 pp. 978-0-14-044455-1 $14.00