Dostoevsky, Fyodor (Dostoyevsky) / Garnett, Constance (Translator). The Novels of Dostoevsky. Volume 1: The Brothers Karamazov, Volume 2: The Idiot, Volume 3: The Possessed, Volume 4: Crime and Punishment, Volume 5: The House of the Dead, Volume 6: The Insulted and Injured, Volume 7: A Raw Youth, Volume 8: The Eternal Husband, Volume 9: The Gambler and other Stories, Volume 10: White Nights and other Stories, Volume 11: An Honest Thief and other Stories, Volume 12: The Friend of the Family or Stepantchikovo and its Inhabitants. Includes seven First English Editions, see notes below. 12 Volumes (complete set, as published by Heinemann) plus 2nd copy Karamazov. London, William Heinemann, 1912 – 1926. Octavos (19 x 12 cm). 1: xii, 838 / 1: xii, 838 / 2: 620 plus 16 pages publishers list / 3: vii, 637 / 4: 493 / 5: v, 284, 16 PL / 6: 345 / 7: 560 / 8: v, 323 / 9: 312 / 10: v, 283, 16 PL / 11: v, 325, (2) PL / (2), 361, (1) [Chronological List of Dostoevsky’s Works with Reference to Volume Numbers]. Uniform (with slight variations) original red cloth. Blind or black vignettes on front boards. Gilt / black decorations and titels on spines. Publisher’s device on rear cover in blind, lower edge untrimmed (some volumes). See images. Very good condition. Sound bindings. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Spines sunned, slight wear to spine ends and lower corners. Edges and end papers age darkened. Some age darkening and mild browning due to paper used. Occasional mild foxing in some of the volumes. Names of previous owners and Ex Libris in some volumes. Internally all clean without marking or annotations. Overall a very nice set. See images.

List of volumes with edition number / year:

Volume 1: The Brothers Karamazov – First Edition 1912
Volume 1: The Brothers Karamazov – Second Impression 1913
Volume 2: The Idiot – Fourth Impression 1917
Volume 3: The Possessed – Second Impression 1916
Volume 4: Crime and Punishment – Seventh Impression 1926
Volume 5: The House of the Dead – Second Impression 1915
Volume 6: The Insulted and Injured – First Edition 1915
Volume 7: A Raw Youth – First Edition 1916
Volume 8: The Eternal Husband – Second Impression 1918
Volume 9: The Gambler and other Stories – First Edition 1917
Volume 10: White Nights and other Stories – First Edition 1918
Volume 11: An Honest Thief and other Stories – First Edition 1919
Volume 12: The Friend of the Family or Stepantchikovo and its Inhabitants – First Edition 1920

About the Author:

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (Dostoyevsky) (1821 – 1881), was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, and journalist. Dostoevsky’s literary works explore the human condition in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. His most acclaimed novels include Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), Demons (1872), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880). His 1864 novella, Notes from Underground, is considered to be one of the first works of existentialist literature. Numerous literary critics rate him as one of the greatest novelists in all of world literature, as many of his works are considered highly influential masterpieces.

About the Translator:

Born in Brighton in 1861, Constance Clara Garnett (née Black) was the sixth of eight children. Educated at Newnham College, Cambridge she studied Latin and Greek, as well as Russian. She married Edward Garnett in 1889 and they had one son, David. It was on a visit to Russia in 1893 that Garnett met Leo Tolstoy and this meeting prompted her to begin translating the Russian literature that she was most passionate about. As a translator of Gogol, Tolstoy, Pushkin, Turgenev, Chekhov and Dostoevsky among others, Constance Garnett translated about 70 Russian works and received great acclaim from writers such as D. H. Lawrence and Joseph Conrad. Her translations had a major effect on readers and are reprinted today. She was an important figure in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, to make Russian literature available to the English speaking public.

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• First edition
• Inventory Number: 103465AB

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