Fyodor Dostoevsky was born into modest nobility and lived lavishly as a military engineer while running in liberal utopian literary circles. He was sentenced to death, pardoned at the last moment, and served four years of Siberian hard labor. He became disillusioned with human nature, gambled himself into poverty, rose to celebrity, and wrote novels that plumb the darkest depths of human psychology with as keen an eye as any author before or since. Collected here are 21 of his novels, novellas, and short stories, including the genre-defining Notes from Underground, the intensely cerebral classic Crime and Punishment, and his epic last novel The Brothers Karamazov.
While serving his hard labor sentence he read nothing but the New Testament (the only book allowed in prison), which profoundly influenced his later works. His mature novels are replete with themes of human depravity, moral searching, and Christian redemption. These volumes contain some of the earliest English translations, most from the prodigious and eminently readable Constance Garnett, who introduced the English speaking world to the Russian novel, and set the standard for generations to come. In the Logos editions these texts are fully indexed and searchable, with all Scripture references available on mouseover, helping you explore the human psyche with the great literary psychologist like never before.
