Great Books and Classics

Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)

All links verified on or after March 15, 2017

List of Works
[The Brothers Karamazov] [Crime and Punishment] [The Idiot] [Notes From Underground] [The Possessed] [Stavrogin's Confession]

The Brothers Karamazov (1879-80) [GBWW,GI,HTR]

HTML (Single page, 1,907KB) at Friends and Partners (Translated by Constance Garnett)
Text file (2,001KB) at Christian Classics Ethereal Library (Translated by Constance Garnett)
Russian HTML (Single page, link-indexed) at Yevgeny Peskin's Public Electronic Library

Available at Amazon.Com:
Hardcover edition, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (Everymans Library, 1992).
Paperback edition, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002, 796 pg).
Paperback edition, translated by Ignat Avsey (Oxford Univ Pr, 1998).
Mass Market Paperback edition, translated by Konstantin Mochulski(?) (Bantam Classic and Loveswept, 1995).

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Crime and Punishment (1866) [HTR,HC]

Russian HTML (Single page, 1180 KB) at Yevgeny Peskin's Public Electronic Library
Text file (1,466 KB) at Christian Classics Ethereal Library (Translated by Constance Garnett)
Multi-format (HTML, EPUB, Kindle, Text) at Project Gutenberg (Translated by Constance Garnett)

Available at Amazon.Com:
Hardcover edition, translated by Larissa Volokhonsky (Knopf, 1993).
Paperback edition, translated by Constance Garnett (Bantam Classics, 1984, 472 pg).

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The Idiot (1868-69) [HTR]

Russian HTML (Single page, link-indexed) at Yevgeny Peskin's Public Electronic Library
Multi-format (HTML, EPUB, Kindle, Text) at Project Gutenberg (Translated by Eva Martin)

Available at Amazon.Com:
Paperback edition, translated by Alan Myers (Oxford Univ Pr, 1998).
Mass Market Paperback edition, translated by Constance Garnett (Bantam Classic and Loveswept, 1983).
Audio CD edition, unabridged (Tantor Audio, 2010).

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Notes From Underground (1864) [GBF]

Russian HTML (Single page) at Yevgeny Peskin's Public Electronic Library
Text file (241 KB) at Christian Classics Ethereal Library (Translator unknown)
Multi-format (HTML, EPUB, Kindle, Text) at Project Gutenberg (Translator unknown)

Available at Amazon.Com:
Library Binding (Large Print) edition, Notes From the Underground and The Double (North Books, 1997).
Paperback edition, translated by Mirra Ginsburg (Bantam Classics, 1983).
Paperback edition, translated by Richard Pevear (Vintage Books, 1994, 136 pg).
Thrift Paperback edition (Dover Pubns, 1992, 91 pg).

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The Possessed (1872) [gbf(50)]
Also known as Devils, or Demons. The gbf(50) list includes only the chapter Stavrogin's Confession, which is not included in the etexts listed.

Multi-format (HTML, EPUB, Kindle, Text) at Project Gutenberg (Translated by Constance Garnett)
Russian HTML (Single page, link-indexed) at Yevgeny Peskin's Public Electronic Library
French Multi-format (HTML, EPUB, Kindle, Text) at Project Gutenberg (Translated by Victor Derély)

Available at Amazon.Com:
Hardcover edition, translated by Larissa Volokhonsky and Richard Pevear (Everymans Library, 2000, 784 pg).
Paperback edition, translated by Robert A. Maguire (Penguin Classics, 2008, 880 pg).

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Stavrogin's Confession (1872) [gbf(50)]
A chapter from the novel The Possessed, originally suppressed as being too shocking to print. It would have been the first chapter in Part II.