Penguin Books Australia

Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Notes from Underground: Popular Penguins

Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's groundbreaking Notes from Underground tells the story of his tortured life. With bitter irony, he describes his refusal to become a worker in the 'anthill' of society and his gradual withdrawal to an existence 'underground'.

Published: 28/06/2010

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141194868

RRP: $9.95

Demons

By Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Pyotr and Stavrogin are the leaders of a Russian revolutionary cell. Their aim is to overthrow the Tsar, destroy society and seize power for themselves. Together they train terrorists who are willing to go to any lengths to achieve their goals - even if the mission means suicide. But when it seems the group is about to be discovered, will their recruits be willing to kill one of their own circle in...

Published: 12/05/2008

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141441412

RRP: $9.95

The Gambler/Bobok/A Nasty Story

By Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The stories in this volume demonstrate Dostoyevsky's genius for fusing caricature, irony and the grotesque to create a powerful dark humour. The Gambler is a breathtaking portrayal of an intense and futile obsession.

Published: 01/09/1966

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780140441796

RRP: $9.95

The House of the Dead

By Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Published: 01/04/1986

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780140444568

RRP: $9.95

The Idiot

By Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naive Prince Myshikin – known as 'the idiot' – pays a visit to his distant relative General Yepanchin and proceeds to charm the General, his wife and his three daughters. But his life is thrown into turmoil when he chances on a photograph of the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna. Utterly infatuated with her, he soon finds himself...

Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naive Prince Myshikin – known as 'the idiot' – pays a visit to his distant relative General Yepanchin and proceeds to charm...

Published: 04/11/2004

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780140447927

RRP: $9.95

Crime & Punishment

By Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice...

Published: 05/05/2003

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780140449136

RRP: $9.95

The Brothers Karamazov

By Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The murder of brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov changes, the lives of his sons irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide; Ivan the intellectual, whose mental tortures drive him to breakdown; the spiritual Alyosha, who tries to heal the family's rifts; and the shadowy figures of their bastard half-brother Smerdyakov...

Published: 05/05/2003

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780140449242

RRP: $9.95

The Gambler and Other Stories

By Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Gambler and Other Stories is Fyodor Dostoyevsky's collection of one novella and six short stories reflecting his own life – indeed, 'The Gambler', a story of a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian General, was written under a strict deadline so he could pay off his roulette debts.

Published: 12/08/2010

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780140455090

RRP: $9.95