The Brothers Karamazov
Last novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky
Notes from Underground
Novella written in 1864 by Fyodor Dostoevsky, and is considered by many to be one of the first existentialist novels.The novella presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator , who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg
Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment (pre-reform Russian: ; post-reform Russian: , tr. Prestuplniye i nakazniye, IPA: [prstplenje nkzanje]) is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments during 1866. It was later published in a single volume. It is the second of …
This House of Sky
1978 memoir by Ivan Doig about the author’s early life in Montana.
Ragtime
Musical style that enjoyed its peak popularity between 1895 and 1919. Its cardinal trait is its syncopated or “ragged” rhythm.