Download or read book Poor Folk Annotated with Biography written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by Golgotha Press. This book was released on 2011-06-17 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poor Folk, sometimes translated as Poor People, was the first novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, which he wrote over the span of nine months. First published in 1846, it was lauded by the influential critic Vissarion Belinsky as being socially conscious literature, who (among others) hailed him as the new Gogol. This book was partly inspired by Nikolai Gogol's short story The Overcoat, whose male protagonist is also a copy clerk. This novel is written in the form of letters of correspondence between the two main characters. Like "The Overcoat", the novel gives a profound account of the lives of low income Russians in the mid-nineteenth century.
Download or read book Poor People New Translation written by Fyodor Dostoevsky and published by Alma Classics. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Introducing the first in a long line of underground 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.
Download or read book The Possessed Annotated with Biography written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by Golgotha Press. This book was released on 2013-11-14 with total page 1017 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Possessed is a novel about the conditions of Imperial Russia in the 19th century and is loosely based on a real Russian case of 1869. It touches upon terrorism and nihilism. A group of extremists want to overthrow the powers of Russia and rule the country themselves. One of their goals is to eliminate the power of the Russian Orthodox Church. The extremists are bright, secretive, and focused, but in the end, they do not achieve their goals. The story centers around two families: the Verkhovenskys and the Stravrogins.
Download or read book The Crocodile Annotated with Biography written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by Golgotha Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fyodor Dostoyevsky's classic story. The story opens with the narrator telling the purportedly true tale of his friend Ivan Matveich, who was swallowed alive by a crocodile. The narrator, Ivan Matveich, and his wife Elena Ivanovna had all gone to the Arcade to see a crocodile that was put on display by a German gentleman. After teasing the crocodile, Ivan Matveich was swallowed alive. He found the inside of the crocodile to be quite elastic and benign, and despite pleas from Elena Ivanovna to cut open the crocodile the German would not cooperate. Ivan Matveich urged his friend to arrange for the crocodile to be paid for before it was cut open, but the crocodile was so expensive that an agreement could not be reached. Elena Ivanovna eventually divorced Ivan Matveich, and he carried on his work as a civil servant as best he could from inside the crocodile.
Download or read book The Grand Inquisitor Annotated with Biography written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by Golgotha Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grand Inquisitor is a parable told by Ivan to Alyosha in Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov. Ivan and Alyosha are brothers; Ivan questions the possibility of a personal, benevolent God and Alyosha is a novice monk. The Grand Inquisitor is an important part of the novel and one of the best-known passages in modern literature because of its ideas about human nature and freedom, and because of its fundamental ambiguity.
Download or read book A Gentle Spirit Annotated with Biography written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by Golgotha Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dostoevsky's classic novella. This annotated version also contains a biography about the life and times of Dostoyevsky.
Download or read book The Works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky Annotated with critical essays and Biography written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by Golgotha Press. This book was released on 2013-11-14 with total page 5184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky are collected in this huge anthology of novels, stories, and novella's. This anthology also includes a short biography about Dostoyevsky, and essays about each of his major works. Works include: Bobok The Brothers Karamazov The Christmas Tree and the Wedding Crime and Punishment The Crocodile The Double The Dream of the Ridiculous Man The Gambler A Gentle Spirit The Grand Inquisitor The Idiot The Little Orphan Notes from the Underground Poor Folk The Possessed The Thief
Download or read book The Idiot Annotated with Critical Essay and Biography written by Fyodor Doystoyevsky and published by Golgotha Press. This book was released on 2013-11-14 with total page 965 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idiot of the title is the protagonist of the novel, Prince Myshkin. He is a simple, honest man who has not had the benefit of education or a high level of intelligence, but his character is good and he lives by Christian values. At the beginning of the novel Myshkin is returning to St. Petersburg from Switzerland, where he has been under medical treatment for epilepsy. On the train home he meets two people who will play a part in his life. The first of this two is Parfyon Rogozhin, a young man of questionable character. The second person is Lebedev, a government official. When Myshkin arrives in St. Petersburg he moves out into society and meets Nastasya Fillipnova, who Rogozhin is obsessed with. Myshkin is considered an idiot by the St. Petersburg society because he is inarticulate and often stammers when he tries to talk to people.
Download or read book The Works of Louisa May Alcott Annotated with Biography of Alcott and Plot Analysis written by Louisa May Alcott and published by Golgotha Press. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 6739 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Works of Louisa May Alcott are collected in this giant anthology. Included with this collection is a biography about the life and times of Alcott, and essay on each of Alcott's major works. Works include: Old-fashioned Girl Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag The Candy Country Comic Tragedies Eight Cousins Louisa May Alcott's Flower Fables A Garland for Girls Jack and Jill Jo's Boys Kitty's Class Day And Other Stories Little Men Little Women Little Women Letters from the House of Alcott The Louisa Alcott Reader Lulu's Library Marjorie's Three Gifts A Modern Cinderella Moods The Mysterious Key And What It Opened Picket Duty and Other Tales Passion and Punishment Rose in Bloom Shawl-Straps Silver Pitchers: and Independence Three Unpublished Poems Under the Lilacs Work: A Story of Experience
Download or read book Crime and Punishment Annotated with Critical Essay and Biography written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by Golgotha Press. This book was released on 2013-11-14 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crime and Punishment is told in the third person, with the narrator being omniscient. The protagonist is former student Romion Romanovich Raskolnikov a down-and-out and somewhat unbalanced individual who lives in a tiny garret at the top of a St. Petersburg apartment building. He is contemplating a crime to prove to himself that all human beings are capable of committing crimes of the most heinous sort. Events lead up to his murdering a pawnbroker named Alyona Ivanovna who he believes the world will be better off without. He believes the immorality of her death will be offset by the good he can do with the proceeds of his crime.
Download or read book The Brothers Karamazov Annotated with Critical Essay and Biography written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by Golgotha Press. This book was released on 2011-06-17 with total page 1345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Brothers Karamazov is a novel of realism and tells a dynastic story. It explores life and what it means through the use of a dysfunctional family, the Karamazovs. The family is headed by Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, a cruel landowner, who has neglected and emotionally abuses his three sons. The eldest son, Dmitry, is in competition with his father over the same woman, although he is engaged to another. The same son has given up his inheritance in order to have money immediately, but suspects his father is cheating him financially.
Download or read book Notes from the Underground Annotated with Critical Essay and Biography written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by Golgotha Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notes from Underground (also translated in English as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld, though "Notes from Underground" is the most literal translation) is an 1864 short novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The Notes is considered by many to be the first existentialist novel. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred to by critics as the Underground Man) who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg. The first part of the story is told in monologue form, or the underground man's diary, and attacks emerging Western philosophy, especially Nikolay Chernyshevsky's What Is to Be Done?.
Download or read book The Double A Petersburg Poem Annotated with a Biography about the Life and Times of Fyodor Dostoyevsky written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by Golgotha Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Double: A Petersburg Poem is a novella written by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The novella was first published in 1846. The Double deals with the internal psychological struggle of its main character, Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin. The Double is the most Gogolesque of Dostoevsky's works; its subtitle "A Petersburg Poem" echoes that of Gogol's Dead Souls. Vladimir Nabokov called it a parody of "The Overcoat". The story is told in great detail with a style intensely saturated by phonetic and rhythmical expressiveness. The novella centers on a government clerk who goes mad, obsessed by the idea that a fellow clerk has usurped his identity. D.S. Mirsky characterized the story as a "painful, almost intolerable reading". With a biography about the life and times of Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Download or read book Little Women Annotated with Biography of Alcott and Plot Analysis written by Louisa May Alcott and published by Golgotha Press. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 771 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women as a study of an American family during the Civil War. It was also very closely based on her own experience as a member of the Alcott family. The protagonist of the story, Josephine “Jo” March is based on Louisa herself. The other three March sisters are closely modeled on her own sisters. This annotated edition includes a biography and critical essay.
Download or read book The Eternal Husband written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2008-02-04 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich and idle man confronts his dead mistress's husband in this psychological novel of duality. Powerful and accessible, it offers a captivating and revealing exploration of love, guilt, and hatred.
Download or read book Little Men Annotated with Biography of Alcott and Plot Analysis written by Louisa May Alcott and published by Golgotha Press. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little Men focuses on Plumfield School that Jo and her husband, Professor Bhaer, run on an estate inherited from Jo’s Aunt March. The education that the children receive at Plumfield is based largely on the philosophical ideas of the author’s father, Bronson Alcott, who was a teacher and philosopher. Louisa May Alcott included plot lines that reflected her own philosophy of equal education and opportunities for girls. The book follows the trials and tribulations of other students in the school and ultimately, the Bhaers win them over and their school provides the youngsters with a secure and loving environment in which they can thrive. This annotated edition includes a biography and critical essay.
Download or read book The Little Orphan Annotated with Biography written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by Golgotha Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fyodor Dostoyevsky's classic story.
