1533-1917

Pyotr and Stavrogin, leaders of a Russian revolutionary cell, train terrorists to participate in a plot to overthrow the tsar, destroy society, and seize power, but when the group is threatened with exposure, the recruits must decide how far they are willing to go to save themselves.

Chichikov, a dismissed civil servant turned confidence man, comes up with a plan to elevate his social standing by buying the souls of dead peasants. Includes an introduction, chronology, and notes.

In Tolstoy's masterpiece, the gorgeous Anna Karenina is married to a significant government minister but falls in love with a prosperous army officer named Count Vronsky. Frantic for truth and significance in life, Anna recklessly defies the norms of Russian society, often smoking opium with her lover as she abandons her son and husband. Damned and detested by her peers, Anna finds herself increasingly jealous and unfulfilled.

The four sons of Fyodor Karamazov, a man of immoral character, must contend with a criminal investigation and with their own inner questions about justice and the existence of God after they are involved in their father's murder.

In nineteenth-century Russia, the wife of an important government official loses her family and social status when she chooses the love of Count Vronsky over a passionless marriage.

Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov tries to buy the souls of peasants who have died since the last census to make himself look like a gentleman owner.

In nineteenth-century Russia, the wife of an important government official loses her family and social status when she chooses the love of Count Vronsky over a passionless marriage.

A translation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's classic novel "The Brothers Karamazov" about the four Karamazov brothers who all become involved in the brutal murder of their father; and contains explanatory notes, time chart, chronology, and lists of characters.

When Fyodor Karamazov, a man of immoral character, is murdered one night, his four sons must contend with the criminal investigation and with their own inner questions about justice and the existence of God.