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Tolstoy and Dostoevsky

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Tolstoy General Resources

Introduction To Tolstoy's Writings by Ernest J Simmons

Leo Tolstoy - A brief biography and bibliography

Birukoff, Paul. Leo Tolstoy: Childhood and Early Manhood

Reminiscences of Tolstoy By Count Illya Tolstoy

Reminiscences of Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy by Maxim Gorky

Tolstoy and His Message By Ernest Howard Crosby: New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1903

Last Days of Leo Tolstoy - by Vladimir Chertkov

The Tragedy of Tolstoy by Aleksandra Tolstaya

Alexander II and His Times: A Narrative History of Russia in the Age of Alexander II, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky (with links to hundreds of images and other materials)

Leo Tolstoy Image Gallery

Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) By Henry James - A discussion of Tolstoy and Turgenev

Tolstoy Is Dead; Long Fight Over - 1910 obituary from the New York Times. Free Registration required.

Lev Tolstoy speaks! A collection of letters Audio, MP3 format

childhood Childhood by Leo Tolstoy - Full text in English

Childhood - Full Text in Russian
OLD War and Peace By Leo Tolstoy - Full Text in English and Russian and also Here

War and Peace in Russian - this site is for those whose Russian skills could use some help. Just click on an unfamiliar word and the English translation will appear at the bottom.

Historical Background To War and Peace

Napoleonic guide - The Russian Compaign

Reason, and History, in Anna Karenina and War and Peace - pdf file, Acrobat reader required

Tolstoy's Mathematics in ''War and Peace'' - by Paul Vitányi. This is a pdf file, Acrobat reader required

Prokofiev's War and Peace by Alex Ross
death of Ivan Ilich "The Death of Ivan Ilych" By Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, 1886. Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude

Death of Ivan Ilych - Full Text in Russian

Lawyers and Literature by James R. Elkins

A transcript of three Ohio Professors discussing Death of Ivan Ilych and Master and Man
 

 

Dostoevsky General Resources

Dostoevsky Bibliography and Criticism

Brief Biography of Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky - his life

Dostoevsky Timeline

19th Century Time Line - The Age of Dostoevsky

The Young Dostoevsky and the Dawn of Realism - Study notes from Professor Gary R. Jahn, University of Minnesota

Dostoevsky as Philosopher

Gothicism in Conrad and Dostoevsky by Robert Berry, Department of English, University of Otago, New Zealand

N. A. Berdyaev (Berdiaev): The Revelation About Man in the Creativity of Dostoevsky

Scandal, Resentment, Idolatry: The Underground Psychology of Terrorism by Andrew McKenna

Dostoevsky and His Theology

Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, and Ayn Rand's Moral Triad

Fyodor Dostoevsky - Living with Epilepsy
notes Notes From Underground by FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY. Full text in English, Garnett trans.

Notes From Underground in Russian

Notes from Underground in Russian - this site is for those whose Russian skills could use some help. Just click on an unfamiliar word and the English translation will appear at the bottom.

What is to be Done by Nikolai Chernyshevsky in Russian

Study Guide for Dostoyevsky: Notes from Underground

Study Notes fot the text - Study notes from Professor Gary R. Jahn, University of Minnesota

The Crystal Palace Model

Kant's Aesthetics in Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground by David A. Goldfarb
cp Dostoevsky's name in English What's in a name?

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky translated by Constance Garnett

Crime and Punishment in Russian 

Crime and Punishment In Russian - this site is for those whose Russian skills could use some help. Just click on an unfamiliar word and the English translation will appear at the bottom.

Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. Lecture on the novel from Russell McNeil

Crime and Punishment Summary & Study Guide. From Professor Beyer at Middlebury College.

Gitta Hammarberg's- Dostoevsky's Petersburg

St. Petersburg on the Road to Capitalism (1840s to 1890s) Background and a Virtual Tour.

The Crystal Palace Model
brothers karamazov The Brothers Karamazov - Full Text in English

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky translated by Constance Garnett

The Brothers Karamazov in Russian - this site is for those whose Russian skills could use some help. Just click on an unfamiliar word and the English translation will appear at the bottom.

Introductions to the Novel by Garnett and others

Comparing the Translations of The Brothers Karamazov

Dostoevsky's Biography with special annotations for The Brothers Karamazov

Tragic and Comic Visions in The Brothers Karamazov An Essay by Joyce Carol Oates

The Brothers Karamazov Bibliography

DOSTOEVSKY AND HIS THEOLOGY by JAMES TOWNSEND

  The Dream Of a Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoevsky Translated by Constance Garnett

The Dream of a Rediculous Man - Full Text in Russian

Conception of the Dream and the Vision in Dostoevsky's Early Novels by Ágnes Dukkon 
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Stongly Recommended Primary Works

Anna Karenin(a) - Full Text in English This page also provides a number of links to works of criticism and interpretation of the novel

Anna Karenina - In Russian - this site is for those whose Russian skills could use some help. Just click on an unfamiliar word and the English translation will appear at the bottom

Anna Karenina - Full text in Russian

Tolstoy's Struggle - Discussion of Anna Karenina
kreutzer sonata "The Kreutzer Sonata" by Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy. - Full text in English - Benjamin R. Tucker trans.

The Kreutzer Sonata by Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy First Published in 1889 Translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude - Full text in English

The Kreutzer Sonata - In Russian - this site is for those whose Russian skills could use some help. Just click on an unfamiliar word and the English translation will appear at the bottom.

The Kreutzer Sonata - Full text in Russian
  Family Happiness - by Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy. Published in 1859. In the translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude . Full Text in English

Family Happiness - Full Text in Russian
what is art What is Art? - Full Text in English - This site provides English and Korean translations, side by side. The korean is illegible (without the proper fonts) however, the English version is perfectly clear at all times.

"What Is Art?" (excerpts) by Leo Tolstoy

The Aesthetic Theory of Leo Tolstoy's What Is Art? by GARY R. JAHN

Tolstoi on Art- criticism

Tolstoy's What is Art?

Outline of Tolstoy's What is Art?

Tolstoy's prophesy: "What Is Art?" today by James Sloan Allen
  What Men Live By - By Lev Tolstoy - Full Text in English
poor folk Poor Folk By Dostoevsky - Full Text in English - translated by C. J. Hogarth

Poor Folk - In Russian - this site is for those whose Russian skills could use some help. Just click on an unfamiliar word and the English translation will appear at the bottom.

Poor Folk - Full Text in Russian
double The Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Translated by Constance Garnett. Full Text in English

The Double - Full Text in Russian
The posessed (the devils) The Posessed (The Devils)

The Posessed - In Russian - this site is for those whose Russian skills could use some help. Just click on an unfamiliar word and the English translation will appear at the bottom.

The Posessed - Full Text in Russian

The Posessed - Full Text in English

Dostoevsky and the Devils Companion to the text. Study guides, analysis, historical context.

Tragic Rites in Dostoyevsky's The Possessed by Joyce Carol Oates
Notes from the house of the dead Notes from the Dead House

Notes from The House of the Dead - In Russian - this site is for those whose Russian skills could use some help. Just click on an unfamiliar word and the English translation will appear at the bottom.

Notes from the House of the Dead - Full Text in Russian

First Descents Into The Inferno: Parallel Ideology And Experience In Conrad's 'Heart Of Darkness' And Dostoevsky's Notes From The House Of The Dead by Dr Robert Berry, English Department, University of Otago
winter notes on summer impressions Winter Notes on Summer Impressions

Winter Notes on Summer Impressions - Full Text in Russian