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Crime and Punishment (Classiques Russes)

Fyodor M. Dostoevsky

Bookking International, 1999

A towering work of criminal psychology
It's seldom that I root for the evildoer of a novel or movie, but Dostoyevsky definitely had me doing it with "Crime and Punishment". Early in the novel, impoverished student Raskolnikov murders two innocent older women in order to make a quick buck (and also for ...

Petersburg (Russian Classics) (in Russian)

Andrey Bely

Bookking International, 1994

Worth the less than ideal translation
Nabokov, the translator's introduction triumphantly proclaims, thought Petersburg one the three best books ever written, beside Joyce's Ulysses and Kafka's Metamorphosis. Nabokov, they do not emphasize quite as proudly, was also a native Russian, so he might have had ...

Lucien Leuwen (World Classics)

Stendhal

Bookking International, 1999

A forgotten treasure
Those "happy few" that have read Stendhal's other famous works (The Red and the Black, The Charterhouse of Parma, etc.) and know the quality of his writing will probably already recognize what a shame it is that this unfinished work is long out of print. Don't be ...

Tartuffe/Dom Juan (World Classics)

de Jean Baptiste Molier

Bookking International, 1999

Moliere takes aim at the hypocrisy of neoclassical France
I often taught Moliere's "Tartuffe" as an example of the neoclassical form of comedy in contrast to the romantic comedy represented by Shakespeare. We would read "Twelfth Night," a play set in a faraway exotic land where the point was simply romance, and then turn to ...