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Book Synopsis Crime and Punishment (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) by : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Download or read book Crime and Punishment (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by Royal Classics. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rodion Raskolnikov kills an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her cash, defending his actions by arguing that with the pawnbroker's money he can perform good deeds to counterbalance the crime, while ridding the world of a vermin.
Book Synopsis The Idiot by : Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Download or read book The Idiot written by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-09 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In September 1867, when Dostoevsky began work on what was to become The Idiot, he was living in Switzerland with his new wife Anna Grigoryevna, having left Russia in order to escape his creditors. They were living in extreme poverty, and constantly had to borrow money or pawn their possessions. They were evicted from their lodgings five times for non-payment of rent, and by the time the novel was finished in January 1869 they had moved between four different cities in Switzerland and Italy. During this time Dostoevsky periodically fell into the grip of his gambling addiction and lost what little money they had on the roulette tables. He was subject to regular and severe epileptic seizures, including one while Anna was going into labor with their daughter Sofia, delaying their ability to go for a midwife. The baby died aged only three months, and Dostoevsky blamed himself for the loss. Dostoevsky's notebooks of 1867 reveal deep uncertainty as to the direction he was taking with the novel. Detailed plot outlines and character sketches were made, but were quickly abandoned and replaced with new ones. In one early draft, the character who was to become Prince Myshkin is an evil man who commits a series of terrible crimes, including the rape of his adopted sister (Nastasya Filippovna), and who only arrives at goodness by way of his conversion through Christ. By the end of the year, however, a new premise had been firmly adopted. In a letter to Apollon Maykov, Dostoevsky explained that his own desperate circumstances had "forced" him to seize on an idea that he had considered for some time but had been afraid of, feeling himself to be artistically unready for it. This was the idea to "depict a completely beautiful human being". Rather than bring a man to goodness, he wanted to start with a man who was already a truly Christian soul, someone who is essentially innocent and deeply compassionate, and test him against the psychological, social and political complexities of the modern Russian world. It was not only a matter of how the good man responded to that world, but of how it responded to him. Devising a series of scandalous scenes, he would "examine each character's emotions and record what each would do in response to Myshkin and to the other characters." The difficulty with this approach was that he himself did not know in advance how the characters were going to respond, and thus he was unable to pre-plan the plot or structure of the novel. Nonetheless, in January 1868 the first chapters of The Idiot were sent off to The Russian Messenger.
Book Synopsis The Brothers Karamazov (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) by : Fyodor Dostoevsky
Download or read book The Brothers Karamazov (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) written by Fyodor Dostoevsky and published by Royal Classics. This book was released on 2021-01-24 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fyodor three son's, the youthful Alyosha, the impetuous Dmitri, and the logical Ivan, are involved in several triangular love affairs. Throughout their encounters, the family is confronted with love, murder, and an exhilarating trial.
Book Synopsis Anna Karenina by : Lev Nikolaevič Tolstoj
Download or read book Anna Karenina written by Lev Nikolaevič Tolstoj and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 1944 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Learning to Curse by : Stephen Greenblatt
Download or read book Learning to Curse written by Stephen Greenblatt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Greenblatt argued in these celebrated essays that the art of the Renaissance could only be understood in the context of the society from which it sprang. His approach - 'New Historicism' - drew from history, anthropology, Marxist theory, post-structuralism, and psychoanalysis and in the process, blew apart the academic boundaries insulating literature from the world around it. Learning to Curse charts the evolution of that approach and provides a vivid and compelling exploration of a complex and contradictory epoch.
Book Synopsis The Secret Garden (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) by : Frances Hodgson Burnett
Download or read book The Secret Garden (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) written by Frances Hodgson Burnett and published by Royal Classics. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Mary is exploring her uncle's gardens, a robin draws her attention to an area of turned-over soil. Mary finds the key to a locked garden, and begins an adventure that will change her life forever.
Book Synopsis Notes from the Underground (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) by : Fyodor Dostoevsky
Download or read book Notes from the Underground (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) written by Fyodor Dostoevsky and published by Royal Classics. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notes from the Underground presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator, who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg. The first part of the story is told in monologue form, and attacks emerging Western philosophy. The second part of the book describes certain events that appear to be destroying and sometimes renewing the underground man, who acts as a first person, unreliable narrator and anti-hero. Notes from the Underground, is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Notes is considered by many to be one of the first existentialist novels. The narration by the Underground Man is laden with ideological allusions and complex conversations regarding the political climate of the time period. Using his fiction as a weapon of ideological discourse, Dostoevsky challenges the ideologies of his time, mainly nihilism and rational egoism. The seminal influence of the work has seen a wide impact on subsequent various works in the fields of philosophy, literature, and film. This case laminate collector's edition includes a Victorian inspired dust-jacket.
Book Synopsis Meditations (Royal Collector's Edition) (Annotated) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) by : Marcus Aurelius
Download or read book Meditations (Royal Collector's Edition) (Annotated) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) written by Marcus Aurelius and published by Royal Classics. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marcus Aurelius' private notes are a significant source of the modern understanding of ancient Stoic philosophy, and have been praised by fellow writers, philosophers, monarchs, and politicians centuries after his death.
Book Synopsis Heart of Darkness (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) by : Joseph Conrad
Download or read book Heart of Darkness (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) written by Joseph Conrad and published by Royal Classics. This book was released on 2021-01-27 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Marlow accepts the captaincy of a steamship in the Congo, and is tasked with transporting ivory downriver and rescuing an ivory trader. On his journey, Marlow encounters the darkness within everyone for committing heinous acts of evil.
Book Synopsis Crime and Punishment by : Fyodor Dostoevsky
Download or read book Crime and Punishment written by Fyodor Dostoevsky and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beloved classic fantasy adventure PETER PAN (originally published in 1911 as PETER AND WENDY), has been adapted countless times for film, stage, and spin-offs -- but it's never been seen as depicted by the brushwork of celebrated Belgian cartoonist Brecht Evens. This elaborately illuminated version of Barrie's perennial masterwork takes an inventive approach to world-building, treating Neverland as an imaginative space of infinite possibility to explore. Pirate ships, lost cities, fairy societies, unknowable beasts and magical creatures -- each of which fall, as Barrie wrote, "somewhere between reality and all we've ever dreamed." Featuring an introduction by Maria Tatar. 9x12", 176 pages. Signed by Dave McKean, and numbered in an edition of 250.
Book Synopsis Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy, Translated by Henry Francis Clay by : Dante Alighieri
Download or read book Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy, Translated by Henry Francis Clay written by Dante Alighieri and published by Portable Poetry. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Durante degli Alighieri, but better known simply as Dante, was born in Florence in about 1265. He grew to be the major Italian poet of the Late Middle Ages and wrote perhaps the greatest of literary works in Italian: The Divine Comedy. In Italy, Dante is often referred to as il Sommo Poeta - "the Supreme Poet." Significantly he writes in the vernacular, an amalgam of Tuscan dialect, Latin and other influence and for this he is often cited as the Father of the Italian Language. As well he wrote The Divine Comedy in a three-line rhyme scheme, or the terza rima, a significant development and its first use, of course, is attributed to him. This major work provided influence for almost all who followed including Milton and Tennyson and has been translated into English by many world class poets including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Laurence Binyon. Henry Francis Cary was born in Gibraltar, on December 6th, 1772. He was the eldest son of William Cary, at the time a Captain of the First Regiment of Foot and Henrietta Brocas. Cary was educated at Rugby School and at the grammar schools of Sutton Coldfield and Birmingham, before proceeding, in 1790, to Christ Church, Oxford, where he studied French and Italian literature. He was a regular contributor at school to the Gentleman's Magazine, and published a volume of Sonnets and Odes. In 1797 he took holy orders and became the vicar of Abbots Bromley in Staffordshire. In 1808 he moved to London and became reader at the Berkeley Chapel and subsequently lecturer at Chiswick and the curate of the Savoy Chapel. Cary's translation of the complete Divina Commedia by Dante in blank verse appeared in 1814. It had to be published by Cary himself as publishers believed the risk of failure too great after the losses on his earlier rendering on The Inferno. The translation was brought to the notice of Samuel Rogers by Thomas Moore. Rogers made some additions to an article on it by Ugo Foscolo in the critically important Edinburgh Review. This article, as well as some fulsome praise from Coleridge in a lecture at the Royal Institution, led to a general consensus of its merit. Gradually Cary's Dante took its place among standard works, passing through four editions in the translator's lifetime. Between 1821 and 1824 Cary published a series of papers in The London Magazine which were later collected together in book form as Lives of The English Poets. He also published a companion volume, Lives of theFrench Poets. In 1824 Cary published a translation of The Birds of Aristophanes, the celebrated Greek dramatist. By 1826 he was appointed assistant librarian in the British Museum, a post which he held for eleven years. Cary had been married to Jane Ormsby for a number of years and the couple had nine children; William Lucius, Jane Sophia, Henrietta, James Walter, Henry, Charles Thomas, Francis Stephen, John and Richard. In 1833 Cary fell ill and was granted a six month leave of absence to recuperate. He took the remaining time to travel with his son, Francis, to Amiens, Paris, Lyons, Aix, Nice, Mentone, Genoa, Pisa, Florence, Sienna, Rome (staying a month), Naples, Bologna, Verona, Venice (again staying a month), Innsbruck, Munich, Nuremberg, Frankfurt, Cologne, Rotterdam, The Hague, Amsterdam, Brussels, Ghent and Bruges. In 1841 a crown pension of 200 a year, obtained through the efforts of Samuel Rogers, was conferred on him. Cary's Lives of the early French Poets, and Lives of English Poets (from Samuel Johnson to Henry Kirke White), intended as a continuation of Johnson's Lives of the Poets, were published in collected form in 1846. He was buried in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey.
Book Synopsis Sense and Sensibility (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) by : Jane Austen
Download or read book Sense and Sensibility (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) written by Jane Austen and published by Royal Classics. This book was released on 2021-01-23 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elinor Dashwood approaches life in a rational manner, while her sister Marianne is wildly romantic. The story shows how the two sisters must learn from each other as they experience love, romance, and heartbreak.
Book Synopsis Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by : Thomas de Quincey
Download or read book Confessions of an English Opium-Eater written by Thomas de Quincey and published by Gottfried & Fritz. This book was released on 1964 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book about opium usage and the effects of addiction on the authors life.
Book Synopsis The Hundred Secret Senses by : Amy Tan
Download or read book The Hundred Secret Senses written by Amy Tan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-12-28 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "wisest and most captivating novel" (Boston Globe) from the author of the bestselling The Valley of Amazement and the new memoir Where the Past Begins Set in San Francisco and in a remote village of Southwestern China, Amy Tan's The Hundred Secret Senses is a tale of American assumptions shaken by Chinese ghosts and broadened with hope. In 1962, five-year-old Olivia meets the half-sister she never knew existed, eighteen-year-old Kwan from China, who sees ghosts with her "yin eyes." Decades later, Olivia describes her complicated relationship with her sister and her failing marriage, as Kwan reveals her story, sweeping the reader into the splendor and violence of mid-nineteenth century China. With her characteristic wisdom, grace, and humor, Tan conjures up a story of the inheritance of love, its secrets and senses, its illusions and truths.
Book Synopsis The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol by : Nikolai Gogol
Download or read book The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol written by Nikolai Gogol and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-08-17 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using, or rather mimicking, traditional forms of storytelling Gogol created stories that are complete within themselves and only tangentially connected to a meaning or moral. His work belongs to the school of invention, where each twist and turn of the narrative is a surprise unfettered by obligation to an overarching theme. Selected from Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka, Mirgorod, and the Petersburg tales and arranged in order of composition, the thirteen stories in The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogolencompass the breadth of Gogol's literary achievement. From the demon-haunted “St. John's Eve ” to the heartrending humiliations and trials of a titular councilor in “The Overcoat,” Gogol's knack for turning literary conventions on their heads combined with his overt joy in the art of story telling shine through in each of the tales. This translation, by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, is as vigorous and darkly funny as the original Russian. It allows readers to experience anew the unmistakable genius of a writer who paved the way for Dostevsky and Kafka.
Book Synopsis The Idiot (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) by : Fyodor Dostoevsky
Download or read book The Idiot (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) written by Fyodor Dostoevsky and published by Royal Classics. This book was released on 2021-01-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, a young man whose goodness, open-hearted simplicity and guilelessness lead many of the more worldly characters he encounters to mistakenly assume that he lacks intelligence and insight. As time passes, they begin to see the consequences of placing such a unique individual at the centre of the conflicts, desires, passions and egoism of worldly society, both for the man himself and for those with whom he becomes involved. The Idiot includes descriptions of some of Fyodor Dostoevsky's most intense personal ordeals, such as epilepsy and mock execution, and explores moral, spiritual and philosophical themes consequent upon them. The artistic method of conscientiously testing his central idea meant that Dostoevsky could not always predict where the plot was going as he was writing. His primary motivation in writing the novel was to subject his own highest ideal, that of true Christian love, to the crucible of contemporary Russian society. This case laminate collector's edition includes a Victorian inspired dust-jacket.
Download or read book Demons written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by Aegitas. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demons is an anti-nihilistic novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It is the third of the four great novels written by Dostoyevsky after his return from Siberian exile, the others being Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov. Demons is a social and political satire, a psychological drama, and large scale tragedy.
