Dostoevsky: The Seeds of Revolt, 1821-1849
6 best books like Dostoevsky: The Seeds of Revolt, 1821-1849 (Joseph Frank): The Brothers Karamazov, Demons, Notes from Underground, The House of the Dead, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, Poor Folk and Other Stories
| Author | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| ISBN | 0374528373 |
The Brothers Karamasov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons―the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and...
Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0679734511. (ISBN13: 9780679734512)
Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horrified Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a "novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that...
Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who...
| Author | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| ISBN | 0486434095 |
Accused of political subversion as a young man, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was sentenced to four years of hard labor at a Siberian prison camp — a horrifying experience from which he developed this astounding semi-autobiographical memoir of a man condemned to ten years of servitude for murdering his wife.
As...
The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
| Author | Jean-François Lyotard |
| ISBN | 0816611734 |
This book explores science and technology, makes connections between these epistemic, cultural, and political trends, and develops profound insights into the nature of our post-modernity. Many definitions of postmodernism focus on its nature as the aftermath of the modern industrial age when...
| Author | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| ISBN | 0140445056 |
Poor Folk was Dostoyevsky's first great triumph in fiction and the work that looks forward to the double-acts and obsessions of his later genius. It takes place in a world of office , lodging-house and seamstress's rooms and consists of an impoverished love affair in letters between a copy clerk and...
