The Double and The Gambler
- Hardcover
160 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2005
Summary
IN A NEW TRANSLATION BY RICHARD PEVEAR and LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY
Two small masterpieces in one volume.
First, The Double, a surprisingly modern hallucinatory nightmare that foreshadows Kafka and Sartre. A minor official named Goliadkin becomes aware of a mysterious doppelganger—a man who has his name and his face and who gradually and relentlessly begins to displace him with his friends and colleagues. In the dilemma of his increasingly paranoid hero, Dostoevsky makes v…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781857152951 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1857152956 |
| Author: | Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2005 |
| Weight: | 525g |
| Dimensions: | 211mm x 133mm x 27mm |
| Series: | Everyman's Library CLASSICS |
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About The Author
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky are known for their highly-acclaimed translations of Dostoevsky (Demons, The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Adolescent, and Notes from Underground). They have twice been awarded America’s PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, for The Brothers Karamazov and for their translation of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina.
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