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Philosophical Classics that will never die!!
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items From Kafka to Dostoevsky these classics are a must read.
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Franz Kafka
Fyodor Dostoevsky
George Orwell
Franz Kafka
A haunting and thought-provoking story about a man who wakes up transformed into an insect, exploring isolation and identity in a surreal way. A must-read if you enjoy deep, symbolic tales that stay with you long after you finish!
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, Paperback
The Trial by Franz Kafka is a haunting and surreal exploration of bureaucracy, guilt, and existential dread. The novel follows Josef K., a man who is suddenly arrested by a mysterious authority for an unspecified crime. As he navigates a labyrinthine...
The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text|Paperback
The Complete Stories brings together all of Kafka’s stories, from the classic tales such as “The Metamorphosis,” “In the Penal Colony,” and “A Hunger Artist” to shorter pieces and fragments that Max Brod, Kafka’s literary executor, released after Kaf...
The Complete Stories|Paperback
Arriving in a village to take up the position of land surveyor for the mysterious lord of a castle, the character known as K. finds himself in a bitter and baffling struggle to contact his new employer and go about his duties.
The Castle: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text|Paperback
Amerika tells the story of the young Karl Rossmann who, after an incident involving a housemaid, is banished by his parents to America. Expected to redeem himself in this magical land of opportunity, young Karl is swept up instead in a whirlwind of d...
Amerika: The Missing Person: A New Translation, Based on the Restored Text|Paperback
Alongside brutal depictions of violence and justice are jokes and deceptively slight, mysterious fables. These unforgettable pieces reflect the brilliance at the core of Franz Kafka, arguably most fully expressed within his short stories. Together th...
The Unhappiness of Being a Single Man: Essential Stories|Paperback
Animals, strange beasts, bureaucrats, businessmen, and nightmares populate this collection of stories by Franz Kafka. These matchless short works, all unpublished during Kafka’s lifetime, range from the gleeful dialogue between a cat and a mouse in “...
Investigations of a Dog: And Other Creatures|Paperback
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Raskolnikov, an impoverished student, determines to kill a pawnbroker whom he detests. He does, and much plot ensues. The first book that Dostoevsky wrote after his exile in Siberia, and widely considered one of the greatest novels of all time, in al...
Crime and Punishment|Hardcover
Dostoevsky’s final, greatest novel, The Brothers Karamazov, paints a complex and richly detailed portrait of a family tormented by its extraordinarily cruel patriarch, Fyodor Pavlovich, whose callous decisions slowly decimate the lives of his sons—th...
The Brothers Karamazov: A New Translation by Michael R. Katz|Paperback
Fyodor Dostoevsky’s classic tale of one man’s pure innocence in the face of a society obsessed with power, money, and manipulation
The twenty-six-year-old Prince Myshkin, following a stay of several years in a Swiss sanatorium, returns to Russia to ...
The Idiot|Paperback
One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator of Dostoevsky's most revolutionary novel is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. In full retreat from society, he scrawls a passionate, ...
Notes from Underground|Paperback
Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horried Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a "novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native lan...
Demons: A Novel in Three Parts (Translated by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky)|Paperback
Regarded as one of world literature's foremost novelists, Fyodor Dostoyevsky's short stories are also some of the best ever written. “White Nights” tells of love and loss on the streets of St. Petersburg, “A Nasty Business” presents the hilarious tal...
White Nights|Hardcover
The Double is a surprisingly modern hallucinatory nightmare–foreshadowing Kafka and Sartre–in which 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 be...
The Double and The Gambler|Paperback
In these stories, Dostoevsky explores both the figure of the dreamer divorced from reality, and also his own ambiguous attitude toward utopianism, themes central to his great novels. In White Nights, the apparent idyll of the dreamer's romantic fanta...
A Gentle Creature and Other Stories: White Nights; A Gentle Creature; The Dream of a Ridiculous Man|Paperback
The narrator and protagonist of Dostoevsky’s novel The Adolescent (first published in English as A Raw Youth) is Arkady Dolgoruky, a na-ve 19-year-old boy bursting with ambition and opinions. The illegitimate son of a dissipated landowner, he is torn...
The Adolescent (Pevear / Volokhonsky Translation)|Paperback
George Orwell
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus ...
Animal Farm: 75th Anniversary Edition|Paperback
In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still fun...
1984|Hardcover