Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky , ; .}}.}} (), was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist. Numerous literary critics regard him as one of the greatest novelists in all of world literature, as many of his works are considered highly influential masterpieces. Dostoevsky's literary works explore the human condition in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. His most acclaimed novels include ''Crime and Punishment'' (1866), ''The Idiot'' (1869), ''Demons'' (1872), ''The Adolescent'' (1875), and ''The Brothers Karamazov'' (1880). His 1864 novella ''Notes from Underground'' is considered to be one of the first works of existentialist literature.

Born in Moscow in 1821, Dostoevsky was introduced to literature at an early age through fairy tales and legends, and through books by Russian and foreign authors. His mother died in 1837 when he was 15, and around the same time, he left school to enter the Nikolayev Military Engineering Institute. After graduating, he worked as an engineer and briefly enjoyed a lavish lifestyle, translating books to earn extra money. In the mid-1840s he wrote his first novel, ''Poor Folk'', which gained him entry into Saint Petersburg's literary circles. However, he was arrested in 1849 for belonging to a literary group, the Petrashevsky Circle, that discussed banned books critical of Tsarist Russia. Dostoevsky was sentenced to death but the sentence was commuted at the last moment. He spent four years in a Siberian prison camp, followed by six years of compulsory military service in exile. In the following years, Dostoevsky worked as a journalist, publishing and editing several magazines of his own and later ''A Writer's Diary'', a collection of his writings. He began to travel around western Europe and developed a gambling addiction, which led to financial hardship. For a time, he had to beg for money, but he eventually became one of the most widely read and highly regarded Russian writers.

Dostoevsky's body of work consists of thirteen novels, three novellas, seventeen short stories, and numerous other works. His writings were widely read both within and beyond his native Russia and influenced an equally great number of later writers including Russians such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Anton Chekhov, philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche, Albert Camus, and Jean-Paul Sartre, and the emergence of Existentialism and Freudianism. His books have been translated into more than 170 languages, and served as the inspiration for many films.

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    by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881
    Published 1976
    Leningrad : Nauka, Leningr. otd-nie, 1976.
    481 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill., facsims., ports. ; 23 cm.
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    by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881
    Published 1961
    Paris, 1961.
    36 p. illus.
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    by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881
    Published 1972
    Leningrad, "Nauka," Leningr. otd-nie, 1972-
    30 v. in 33 ports. 22 cm.
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    Berlin, Globus [n.d.]
    454 p. illus.
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    by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881
    Published 1935
    Leningrad : Izd-vo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1935.
    603 pages : facsimiles, portraits ; 23 cm.
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    by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881
    Published 1976
    Kraków : Wydawn. Literackie, [1976]
    345 p. ; 20 cm.
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    by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881
    Published 1935
    Leningrad : Izd-vo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1935.
    1 online resource (603 pages) : facsimiles, portraits.
    Center for Research Libraries
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    Ilāhābāda : Nīlābha Prakāśana Graha, [19--?]
    127 p. ; 18 cm.
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    by Baty, Gaston
    Published 1933
    Paris : Éditions Coutan-Lambert, 1933.
    136 p. : ill.
    Other Authors: “...Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881...”
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    by Camus, Albert, 1913-1960
    Published 1959
    Paris : Gallimard, 1959.]
    298 p.
    Other Authors: “...Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881...”
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    by Temiri︠a︡zev, B.
    Published 1946
    Paris : Aux Editions des Quatre-Vents, 1946.
    131 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
    Other Authors: “...Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881...”
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    by Camus, Albert, 1913-1960
    Published 1959
    [Paris] : Gallimard, c1959.
    182 p.
    Other Authors: “...Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881...”
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    by Neveux, Georges, 1900-
    Published 1967
    [Paris] : Gallimard, [1967]
    176 p. ; 19cm.
    Other Authors: “...Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881...”
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    by Copeau, Jacques, 1879-1949
    Published 1971
    [Paris, L'Avant-Scène, 1971]
    50 p. illus. 27cm.
    Other Authors: “...Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881...”
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    by Thomas, Robert, 1930-1989
    Published 1962
    [Paris], [Plaisir de France], [1962]
    46 pages illustrations 27 cm.
    Other Authors: “...Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881...”
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    by Thomas, Robert, 1930-1989
    Published 1962
    [Paris], [Plaisir de France], [1962]
    1 online resource (46 pages) : illustrations.
    Other Authors: “...Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881...”
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    S.-Peterburg : Tip. M. M. Stas︠i︡ulevicha, 1902.
    192 p.
    Other Authors: “...Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881...”
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    Published 1995
    Moskva : Izd-vo "Nauka" : MAIK "Nauka", 1995.
    350 p. ; 22 cm.
    Other Authors: “...Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881...”
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    Published 1955
    [Paris] : L'Avant-scène, [1955-1965]
    v. : ill. ; 27 cm.
    Other Authors: “...Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881...”
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