Larissa Volokhonsky Books
Notes from a Dead House
By Fedor Mihajlovic Dostoevskij
In 1849, Dostoevsky was sentenced to four years at hard labor in a Siberian prison camp for participating in a socialist discussion group. The novel he wrote after his release, based on notes he s...
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By Larissa Volokhonsky Translator, Fedor Mihajlovic Dostoevskij, Richard Pevear Translator
A beautiful hardcover edition of the first great prison memoir, Fyodor Dostoevsky's fictionalized account of his life-changing penal servitude in Siberia. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa V...
Read MoreThe Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
When Pushkin first read some of the stories in this collection, he declared himself "amazed." "Here is real gaiety," he wrote, "honest, unconstrained, without mincing, without primness. And in pla...
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By Fedor Mihajlovic Dostoevskij
The narrator and protagonist of Dostoevsky’s novel The Adolescent (first published in English as A Raw Youth) is Arkady Dolgoruky, a na•ve 19-year-old boy bursting with ambition and opinions. The i...
Read MoreThe Double and The Gambler
By Fedor Mihajlovic Dostoevskij
The award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have given us the definitive version of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s strikingly original short novels, The Double and The Gambler.The Dou...
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By Larissa Volokhonsky Translator, Anton Pavlovic Cehov, Richard Pevear Translator
From the celebrated, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov: a lavish volume of stories by one of the most influential short fiction writers of all time. Anton Chekh...
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By Larissa Volokhonsky, Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol, Richard Pevear, Nikolaj Vasil Evic Gogol
"Nikolai Gogol's stories continue to delight readers the world over. Now a new translation - from an award-winning team of translators - presents these stories in all their inventive, exuberant glo...
Read MoreCrime and Punishment
By Larissa Volokhonsky, Fedor Mihajlovic Dostoevskij, Fyodor Dostoevsky Translated By Richard Pevear
Hailed by Washington Post Book World as “the best [translation] currently available" when it was first published, this second edition of Crime and Punishment has been updated in honor of the...
Read MoreDemons
By Larissa Volokhonsky, Fedor Mihajlovic Dostoevskij, Fyodor Dostoevsky The New Translation By Richard Pevear
Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horried Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a "novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague of mate...
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