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Essential Novelists - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky,August Nemo

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1,596 pages, about 32 hours of reading

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Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels ofFyodor Dostoevskywhich areCrime and Punishmentand The Idiot. Dostoevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. Novels selected for this book: - Crime and Punishment - The Idiot This is one of many books in the seriesEssential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.

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