Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Summary: Contains translations of five short stories by the nineteenth-century Russian author, featuring the title work which describes the meeting of a betrayed widower and his dead wife's lover, and includes "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, " the last story Dostoevsky wrote.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1997
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2002
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Summary: Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from an asylum in Switzerland. As he becomes embroiled in the frantic amatory and financial intrigues which centre around a cast of brilliantly realised characters and which ultimately lead to tragedy, he emerges as a unique combination of the Christian ideal of perfection and Dostoevsky's own views, afflictions and manners. His serene selflessness is contrasted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wordsworth Editions Ltd. 1996
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Summary: A monumental new translation--the first in more than twenty years--of Russia's greatest family drama, rendered with all the passion, humor, and soul of the original. Dostoevsky's final, greatest novel, The Brothers Karamazov, paints a complex and richly detailed portrait of a family tormented by its extraordinarily cruel patriarch, Fyodor Pavlovich, whose callous decisions slowly decimate the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright 2023
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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Summary: Raskolnikov, an impoverished Russian student, murders a despicable old pawnbroker, reasoning that his evil act is outweighed by humanitarian good, but he discovers the fault in his theory when he is plagued by horror and guilt over his actions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2001
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1978
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1994
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Summary: Determined to overreach his humanity and assert his untrammeled individual will, Raskolnikov, and impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the Tsars, commits an act of murder and theft and sets into motion a story which, for its excruciating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its profundity of characterization and vision, is almost unequaled in the literatures of the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1993
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Summary: The story of the four Karamazov brothers--each with his own distinct personality and desires. Driven by intense, uncontrollable emotions of rage and revenge, they all become involved in the brutal murder of their despicable father. Exploring the secret depths of humanity's struggles and sins, Dostoyevsky unfolds a grand epic which attempts to venture into mankind's darkest heart, and grasp the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1992
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Summary: The story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes to set himself outside and above society. The novel is marked by Dostoevsky's own harrowing experience in penal servitude, and yet contains moments of wild humor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Press 1966
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1991
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CB FICTION DostoevskyMoreland & Arbuckle
Contents: Gonna send ya back to Georgia; (4:08) --; Fishin' hole; (3:53) --; Tell me why; (2:42) --; Diamond ring; (6:08) --; See my jumper hangin' out on the line; (4:44) --; The legend; (3:16) --; Never far behind; (2:54) --; Teasin' Doney; (4:04) --; Please please mammy; (4:02) --; Pittsburgh in the morning, Philadelphia at night; (4:43) --; Wrong I do; (3:29) --; Wiser jam; (6:31).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Northern Blues 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES MORBartal, Israel
Summary: "In the nineteenth century, the largest Jewish community the modern world had known lived in hundreds of towns and shtetls in the territory between the Prussian border of Poland and the Ukrainian coast of the Black Sea. The period had started with the partition of Poland and the absorption of its territories into the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires; it would end with the first large-scale...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Pennsylvania Press 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1952
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SC DostoSummary: The early 19th-century abolitionist movement was firmly fixed on ending slavery. This program examines America through the eyes of the free black community in Philadelphia. From free men and fugitive slaves seeking citizenship, to black churches promoting education and offering aid to the poor, the stage is set for the looming showdown over basic human rights.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1998
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James, Henry
Summary: Three major novels from James's early middle years: Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, and The Bostonians. These studies in the exercise of power between the sexes, classes, and cultures portray American women confronting crises of independence and possession. "James beginning to realize the height of his powers." $1 (BWall Street Journal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1985
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMSummary: It was the ultimate face-off between North and South - a deadly clash over race, rights, and the future of freedom in America. This program offers an up-close look at the years that preceded the American Civil War. Through individual accounts, re-creations, interviews, and poignant photography, this program details how the rising tide of abolitionism met the deeply entrenched slave economy - a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1998
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Williams, Richard T.
Contents: [1] 1682-1782.--[2] 1783-1810.--[3] 1811-1831.--[4] 1832-1850.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [s.n.]. 1972
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3748 INDSummary: Considered the first modern novel, Crime and Punishment is both a compelling psychodrama and an unrelenting examination of modern humankind. This program skillfully interweaves riveting dramatizations of Fyodor Dostoevsky's masterpiece with Notes from the Underground and the autobiographical Memoirs from the House of the Dead. Penetrating observations are provided by Professor John Jones, of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Barnes, Robert William.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1993
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3752 BAdams, John Quincy
Summary: Volume I begins during the American Revolution, with Adams's first entry, as he prepares to embark on a perilous wartime voyage to Europe with his father, diplomat John Adams, and records his early impressions of Franklin and Jefferson and of Paris on the eve of revolution; it details his abbreviated but eventful years of study at Harvard and his emergence into the world of politics in his own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY ADAJames, Henry
Contents: Watch and ward -- Roderick Hudson -- The American -- The Europeans -- Confidence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics America 1983
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMCornwell, Bernard.
Summary: Five years after the battle of Waterloo, Sharpe's, peaceful retirement in Normandy is shattered by a plea for help. Don Blas Vivar is missing in Chile, reported dead at rebel hands, a report his wife refuses to believe. Sharpe and his companion, Patrick Harper set off to Chile, via St Helena where they meet the fallen Emperor Napoleon. Neither Sharpe or Harper realize what danger awaits them in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 1998