Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Possessed (The Devils). The Possessed (The Devils) - Kindle edition by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, Garnett, Constance. The question is difficult to answer because of the vagueness of the word "best". "Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time thus immediately becomes the essential one-volume commentary on the intellectual dynamics and artistry of this great novelist's impassioned, idea-driven fiction. Verified Purchase. 12 Facts about Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. . . 286 Copy quote When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost in futilities, errors, laziness, incapacity to live; how little I appreciated it, how many times I sinned against my heart and soul-then my heart bleeds. Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. 5.0 out of 5 stars Good version of one of the great world novels. The Gambler is an extraordinary tale by one of the acknowledged masters of world literature and this edition benefits from an excellent introduction, low-cost and the opportunity to experience the translation of Constance Garnett. In Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 1866 novel, a … 8 Experts on Who’s Greater: Readers also returned to Kevin Hartnett’s Russian lit throwdown, for which he asked eight scholars and avid lay readers to present their cases for Tolstoy or Dostoevsky as the king of Russian literature. Dostoevsky was educated at home and at a private school. March 1, 2018. Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Part VI, Chapter 4, p. 471), 1866. This is problematic for me for the following reason: I found Crime and Punishment to be the most pleasurable and thrilling. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) was born in Moscow, as the second son of a staff doctor at the Hospital for the Poor - later he acquired an estate and serfs. Tolstoy or Dostoevsky? 4. Shortly after the death of his mother in 1837, he was sent to St. Petersburg, where he entered the Army Engineering College. BY Ray Cavanaugh . . Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 24, 2011.