Fyodor Dostoyevski, read by Dick Hill, Tantor Media, unabridged, 19 CDs, 23.5 hrs., $45.99 ISBN 978-1-4001-1603-4 Dostoyevski's classic novel of murder and guilt, featuring the conflicted killer ...
“What is the last book you read that you remember reading and enjoying?” I ask students on the first day of the introductory litera­ture course I teach at a vocationally focused college. The class is ...
It’s been said about Bernard Madoff that he wanted to be caught. That knowledge of the extent of his crimes was its own burden, one relieved by those same crimes being exposed. It was impossible not ...
In September 1865, Fyodor Dostoevsky reached his lowest ebb. The 43-year-old Russian was holed up in a cheap hotel room in Wiesbaden, the spa town in central Germany where he had come to recoup his ...
Fyodor Dostoevsky is considered as one of the most loved novelists across the world and he is widely read even today. His writing goes deep into human psychology, morality, faith, and the problems ...
A former archbishop of Canterbury on reclaiming the human world through compassion and absolution. By Peter Wehner The Russian novelist, a compulsive gambler, lost everything in the opulent spa and ...
Philosopher, linguist, and literary critic Julia Kristeva’s short book on the writings of Fyodor Dostoevsky juxtaposes vignettes from her own past with observations about the writer who influenced her ...
Burdened by gambling debts so onerous he feared imprisonment (again), suffering debilitating epileptic seizures and reeling from the deaths of his wife and his brother, Fyodor Dostoevsky in 1865 began ...