Dostoevsky’s drama of sin, guilt, and redemption transforms the sordid story of an old woman’s murder into the nineteenth century’s profoundest and most compelling philosophical novel.Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the tsars, is determined to overreach his humanity and assert his untrammeled individual will. When he commits an act of murder and theft, he sets into motion a story that, for its excruciating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its depth of characterization and vision is almost unequaled in the literatures of the world. The best known of Dostoevsky’s masterpieces,Crime and Punishment can bear any amount of rereading without losing a drop of its power over our imaginations.Award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky render this elusive and wildly innovative novel with an energy, suppleness, and range of voice that do full justice to the genius of its creator.

Dostoevsky’s drama of sin, guilt, and redemption transforms the sordid story of an old woman’s murder into the nineteenth century’s profoundest and most compelling philosophical novel.Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the tsars, is determined to overreach his humanity and assert his untrammeled individual will. When he commits an act of murder and theft, he sets into motion a story that, for its excruciating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its depth of characterization and vision is almost unequaled in the literatures of the world. The best known of Dostoevsky’s masterpieces,Crime and Punishment can bear any amount of rereading without losing a drop of its power over our imaginations.Award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky render this elusive and wildly innovative novel with an energy, suppleness, and range of voice that do full justice to the genius of its creator.

Raskolnikov, étudiant à Saint-Pétersbourg, a interrompu ses études. Rêveur solitaire, refermé sur lui-même, sombre, triste, altier et fier, mais également généreux et bon, il se considère comme un homme hors du commun. Il est persuadé que, sur Terre, certains êtres sont nuisibles ou parasites. Il a une théorie. On peut sacrifier un pou si, par ce sacrifice, on fait le bien par ailleurs. Ce pou, il l'a trouvé en la personne d'une femme ignoble, prêteuse sur gages. Après avoir imaginé ce meurtre des centaines de fois, le regard brûlant, les joues creuses, il finit par commettre ce crime, mais rien ne se passe comme prévu… et sa vie bascule.Un des plus grands romans de Dostoïevski et de la littérature russe, qu'il faut absolument avoir lu…

asdasd

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell nee Stevenson (1810–1865), often referred to simply as Mrs. Gaskell, was an English novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. She is perhaps best known for her biography of Charlotte Brontë. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of society, including the very poor, and as such are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. She married William Gaskell, the minister at Cross Street Unitarian Chapel in Manchester. They settled in Manchester, where the industrial surroundings would offer inspiration for her novels. Her first novel, Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life, was published anonymously in 1848. The best known of her remaining novels are Cranford (1853), North and South (1855), and Wives and Daughters (1866). She became popular for her writing, especially her ghost story writing, aided by her friend Charles Dickens, who published her work in his magazine Household Words. Her other works include: The Grey Woman (1865), Lois the Witch (1861) and The Old Nurse's Story (1852).

World-renowned fantasist Ray Bradbury has on several occasions stepped outside the arenas of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. An unabashed romantic, his first novel in 1957 was basically a love letter to his childhood. (For those who want to undertake an even more evocative look at the dark side of youth, five years later the author would write the chilling classic Something Wicked This Way Comes.) Dandelion Wine takes us into the summer of 1928, and to all the wondrous and magical events in the life of a 12-year-old Midwestern boy named Douglas Spaulding. This tender, openly affectionate story of a young man’s voyage of discovery is certainly more mainstream than exotic. No walking dead or spaceships to Mars here. Yet those who wish to experience the unique magic of early Bradbury as a prose stylist should find Dandelion Wine most refreshing.

Рассказ вошёл в сборники:A Medicine For Melancholy (Лекарство от меланхолии)S Is For Space (К значит Космос)The Stories of Ray Bradbury (И грянул гром: 100 рассказов)Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales (Сборник ста лучших рассказов)

DARKER — российский литературный онлайн-журнал (вебзин) посвященный «темному» фэнтези, мистике, литературе ужасов и хоррор-культуре в целом. Создан в 2011 году на основе pdf-журнала «ТЬМА». Выходит с периодичностью раз в месяц. Публикует жанровые рецензии, статьи, обзоры, а также рассказы и повести отечественных и зарубежных авторов.В данный сборник вошли избранные рассказы зарубежных и отечественных авторов (от классиков до современных), опубликованные в онлайн-журнале «DARKER» в течение 2011–2015 года.Многие произведения публикуются на русском впервые.*Внимание! Присутствуют произведения категории 18+.Сайт онлайн-журнала: http://darkermagazine.ru/[Электронное издание, 2015]

Рассказ вошёл в сборники:Long After Midnight (Далеко за полночь)Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales (Сборник ста лучших рассказов)

Das Glasperlenspiel ist Hermann Hesses intellektuelle Antwort auf die Barbarei des Hitlerfaschismus. Mit der Utopie seiner pädagogischen Provinz Kastalien entwirft der Autor darüber hinaus eine Gegenwelt zu Diktatur und Verbrechen des Dritten Reichs und stellt die Frage nach den erzieherisch-bildenden Möglichkeiten des Geistes. Die in sich geschlossene geistige Welt der Zucht und der Askese in Kastalien findet höchsten Ausdruck und Vollendung in der Kunst des Glasperlenspiels: einem Spiel, bei dem »sämtliche Inhalte und Werte unserer Kultur« miteinander kommunizieren. Der Roman basiert auf der Idee einer überzeitlichen Biografie des Glasperlenspielmeisters Josef Knecht, der in einigen Wiedergeburten große Epochen der Menschheitsgeschichte miterlebt.

Goethe vollendete 1794-96 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, die als Musterbeispiel der Gattung des Bildungsromans gelten. Daneben schrieb er kleinere Werke wie die «Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten», in deren Rahmen auch das scherzhaft-verrätselte Das Märchen erschien (1794/95).

Das Schloss ist neben Amerika und Der Process einer der drei unvollendeten Romane von Franz Kafka. Das 1922 entstandene Werk wurde 1926 von Max Brod postum veröffentlicht. Es schildert den vergeblichen Kampf des Landvermessers K. um Anerkennung seiner beruflichen und privaten Existenz durch ein geheimnisvolles Schloss und dessen Vertreter.