Constance Garnett
Despite the harsh circumstances besetting his own life -- object poverty, incessant gambling, the death of his firstborn child -- Dostoevsky produced a second masterpiece, The Idiot, just two years after completing Crime and Punishment. In it, a ... [... more]
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Brothers Karamazov
 This Translation Makes Such a Difference: Two the previous reviewers discussed other translators than the two that according to the above description translated this book. I have a soft cover copy of Pevear and Volokhonsky's translation (as well as a [... more]
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The Brothers Karamazov
This Translation Makes Such a Difference: Two the previous reviewers discussed other translators than the two that according to the above description translated this book. I have a soft cover copy of Pevear and Volokhonsky's translation (as well as a [... more]
CDN$32.00
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The Idiot
Tragic but truthful: Owen Meany, Holden Caulfeld, Zorba (the greek) and Dostoevsky's Prince Myshkin are characters one will *never* forget. This book changed the way i looked at christ. See what it's like to be a child again. Overwhelmingly depressing [... more]
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Forty Stories
Superb translations; the English flows: I like Robert Payne's translations of Chekhov because he has a good ear for the flow of beautiful writing. He does not bog Chekhov's prose down with needless commas like Constance Garnett and others. Payne's [... more]
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The Karamazov Brothers
From Amazon.com: A striking novel by one of the foremost Russian novelists, The Brothers Karamazov was a distinctive work when it was first published in the early 1900s--roughly 20 years after Dostoyevsky's death--not only for its stylistic writing, but [... more]
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The Brothers Karamazov
This Translation Makes Such a Difference: Two the previous reviewers discussed other translators than the two that according to the above description translated this book. I have a soft cover copy of Pevear and Volokhonsky's translation (as well as a [... more]
CDN$11.99
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Anton Chekhov's Short Stories: Texts of the Stories, ...
Poor translations: I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Constance Garnett ruins Chekhov for me. Her work is reprinted for financial reasons, not artistic ones. Want to read "good" Chekhov? Read Robert Payne or Ann Dunnigan's translations. [... more]
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Brothers Karamazov
From Amazon.com: A striking novel by one of the foremost Russian novelists, The Brothers Karamazov was a distinctive work when it was first published in the early 1900s--roughly 20 years after Dostoyevsky's death--not only for its stylistic writing, but [... more]
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Ernest J. Simmons
Crime and Punishment Hardcover, 656 pages Fyodor Dostoevsky Ernest J. Simmons Constance Garnett [... more]
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The Essential Tales of Chekhov
From Amazon.com: Anton Chekhov is best known as a playwright, the author of such classics as Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, and Three Sisters, but he was also an accomplished short-story writer. The Essential Tales of Chekhov does not pretend to be a [... more]
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The Gospel in Brief
My Father is not flesh, but spirit.: I have always felt that much of the Bible and the Church was hiding the heart of Christ's message. The Bible seems a tool that the Church arbitrarily canonized to use for justification; eerily much like the teachers [... more]
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