Literature Books

Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He...

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The Brothers Karamazov

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the...

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Notes from Underground

Notes from Underground

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from UndergroundNotes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction,...

tags: psychology, novels, cultural, classics, literature, classic literature, 19th century, philosophy, russia, russian literature, fiction

The Idiot

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two...

tags: historical, novels, cultural, classics, literature, classic literature, 19th century, philosophy, russia, russian literature, historical fiction, fiction

White Nights

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

White Nights is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky that was published in 1848. Set in St. Petersburg, it is the story of a young man fighting his inner...

tags: romance, novels, cultural, short stories, novella, classics, literature, 19th century, russia, russian literature, fiction

Till We Have Faces

Till We Have Faces

In this timeless tale of two mortal princesses- one beautiful and one unattractive- C.S. Lewis reworks the classical myth of Cupid and Psyche into an enduring...

tags: christianity, mythology, classics, religion, fantasy, retellings, fiction, literature, christian fiction, christian

The Pilgrim's Progress

The Pilgrim's Progress

This famous story of man's progress through life in search of salvation remains one of the most entertaining allegories of faith ever written. Set against...

tags: fantasy, christian fiction, faith, theology, christian, religion, literature, fiction, classics, christianity

The Gambler

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

In this dark and compelling short novel, Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young tutor working in the household of an imperious Russian...

tags: historical, romance, novels, cultural, roman, classics, literature, 19th century, russia, russian literature, historical fiction, fiction

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

by G.K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton's surreal masterpiece is a psychological thriller that centers on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-century London who call themselves by the...

tags: thriller, christian, philosophy, european literature, classics, novels, fantasy, fiction, literature, british literature, mystery

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

A short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky written in 1877. It begins with a man walking St. Petersburg's streets while musing upon how ridiculous his life is, as...

tags: novels, short stories, cultural, audiobook, classics, literature, 19th century, philosophy, russia, russian literature, fiction

That Hideous Strength

That Hideous Strength

The third novel in the science-fiction trilogy by C.S. Lewis. This final story is set on Earth, and tells of a terrifying conspiracy against humanity.The story...

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Demons

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 06797345110679734511. (ISBN13: 9780679734512)Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horrified Russians in 1869,...

tags: novels, cultural, politics, classics, literature, classic literature, 19th century, philosophy, russia, russian literature, fiction

Poor Folk

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Poor Folk is an epistolary novel -- that is, a tale told as a series of letters between the characters. And oh, what characters these are! Makar Dievushkin...

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Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

A collection of powerful stories by one of the masters of Russian literature, illustrating the author's thoughts on political philosophy, religion and above...

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The House of the Dead

The House of the Dead

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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...

tags: historical, novels, cultural, classics, literature, classic literature, 19th century, philosophy, russia, russian literature, historical fiction, fiction

The Insulted and Humiliated

The Insulted and Humiliated

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Insulted & Injured, published soon after Dostoevsky's political imprisonment, clearly foreshadows his later preoccupation with unconscious psychological...

tags: drama, psychology, novels, cultural, literary fiction, classics, literature, 19th century, russia, russian literature, fiction

8 أعمال دوستويفسكي الأدبية: الجريمة والعقاب 1 ـ المجلد

8 أعمال دوستويفسكي الأدبية: الجريمة والعقاب 1 ـ المجلد

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

إنه دوستويفسكي, الروائي العظيم الفريد من نوعه الذي أثر فينا ثأثيراً كبيراً, بحيث جعل من نفسه شريكاً لنا في تصرفاتنا وأفعالنا السيئة منها قبل الحسنة. لم يكن...

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Pure

by Andrew Miller

Deep in the heart of Paris, its oldest cemetery is, by 1785, overflowing, tainting the very breath of those who live nearby. Into their midst comes...

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Phantastes

by George MacDonald

C.S. Lewis said that upon reading this astonishing 19th-century fairy tale he "had crossed a great frontier," and numerous others both before and since have...

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لو أبصرت ثلاثة أيام

لو أبصرت ثلاثة أيام

by Helen Keller

أعتقد أنه من الممكن أن أرسم على سبيل التخيل ماذا يكون عليّ أن أرى لو أنني وُهِبت نعمة البصر فقط لثلاثة أيام؛ فحاولوا أن تشاركوني في هذا الخيال، ركزوا تفكيركم...

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