Dostoyevskyin a sentence
- Demons, Fyodor Dostoevsky (1872† (source)
- Do you know what Dostoyevsky once said?† (source)
- I'd often heard Boris and my father, in their arm-waving "intellectual talks," discussing the many celebrated gamblers in Russian history: Pushkin, Dostoyevsky, other names I didn't know.† (source)
- I wasn't into Chaucer or Proust or Dostoevsky or any of those other dead guys; I read mainly mysteries and thrillers and books by Stephen King, and I took a particular liking to Carl Hiaasen because his words flowed easily and he always made me laugh I couldn't help but think that if schools had assigned these books in English class, we'd have a lot more readers in the world.† (source)
- He never lived to see his dreams fulfilled, but when I thumb through his old brown briefcase filled with his paperwork from forty-five years ago, the notes and papers he left behind reveal a man in constant thought: references to Dostoyevsky, Faulkner, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Jackie Robinson, and notebooks upon notebooks filled with sermons and Bible verses.† (source)
- He looked more like someone Anderson would expect to find hearthside in some Ivy League library reading Dostoyevsky.† (source)
- —Fyodor Dostoevsky Wallowa Lake State Park in Oregon and its surrounding area has been well referred to as the Little Switzerland of America.† (source)
- Another masterly description of how existential choice springs from inner need and despair can be found in Dostoyevsky's great novel Crime and Punishment.† (source)
- The works he admired most were Dante's; those he despised most were Dostoyevsky's.† (source)
- I was taking one of I hose honors programs that teach you to think independently, and except for a course in Tolstoy and Dostoevsky and a seminar in advanced poetry composition, I would spend my whole time writing on some obscure theme in the works of James Joyce.† (source)
- Somewhere in the recumbent solitudes, the motionless but teeming millions of books, lost in two dozen turns right, three dozen turns left, down aisles, through doors, toward dead ends, locked doors, half-empty shelves, somewhere in the literary soot of Dickens's London, or Dostoevsky's Moscow or the steppes beyond, somewhere in the vellumed dust of atlas or Geographic, sneezes pent but set like traps, the boys crouched, stood, lay sweating a cool and constant brine.† (source)
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- Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov† (source)
- And The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky.† (source)
- Dostoevsky?† (source)
- Straight out of Dostoyevsky.† (source)
- He said that everything there was to know about life was in The Brothers Karamazov, by Feodor Dostoevsky.† (source)
- I wanted to be a writer myself until halfway through Harvard I realized I could never be a Dostoevsky, and so turned my piercing mind toward the seething arcana of human protoplasm.† (source)
- He'd tried to discuss Dostoyevsky and drawn blank stares while theorizing about Raskolnikov's need to suffer punishment.† (source)
- From "The Grand Inquisitor", The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky (1880† (source)
- Crime and Punishment , Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866† (source)
- Dostoyevsky had spent some time in prison.† (source)
- But his grandfather had recently gone blind, and he had requested Ashoke's company specifically, to read him The Statesman in the morning, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy in the afternoon.† (source)
- Dining alone at table six was an eminent professor of literature—who they say had single-handedly wrestled the works of Dostoevsky to the ground.† (source)
- He had watched as a single passage from Dostoevsky roused one man to action and another to indifference—in the very same hour.† (source)
- You cannot pick up a work of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, or Turgenev without bumping into an Anna, an Andrey, or an Alexander.† (source)
- And having thus broached the subject, the Count went on to applaud the couplets of Pushkin, the paragraphs of Dostoevsky, and the transcriptions of Socrates and Jesus.† (source)
- The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky (1869† (source)
- And with no destination in mind, I crossed the Moika and Fontanka Canals, I passed the shops, and the rose-hued facades of the grand old homes until, at last, I reached Tikhvin Cemetery, where the bodies of Dostoevsky and Tchaikovsky slumber a few feet apart.† (source)
- Though she never mastered the art of cooking—my mother should have been banned from the kitchen—she spoke four languages and could quote Dostoyevsky in Russian; she was an accomplished classical pianist and had attended the University of Vienna at a time when female students were rare.† (source)
- Everything I had written was squeezed between Dostoyevsky's great lines, as if my words were his discards.† (source)
- My secret journal was an old hardback copy of The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, in which I spent hours writing in a tiny script between the tightly printed lines.† (source)
- I rose and walked away—I, I, I; not Byron, Shelley, Dostoevsky, but I, Bernard.† (source)
- For I changed and changed; was Hamlet, was Shelley, was the hero, whose name I now forget, of a novel by Dostoevsky; was for a whole term, incredibly, Napoleon; but was Byron chiefly.† (source)
- I sought my oldest friend, who had known me when I was Byron; when I was Meredith's young man, and also that hero in a book by Dostoevsky whose name I have forgotten.† (source)
- Notes from the Underground FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY PART I Underground* *The author of the diary and the diary itself are, of course, imaginary.† (source)
- [*] Dostoevsky appears to have forgotten that it is after sunset, and that the last time Raskolnikov visited the police office at two in the afternoon he was reproached for coming too late.† (source)
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky PART I Book I. The History Of A Family Chapter I. Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov Alexey Fyodorovitch Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, a land owner well known in our district in his own day, and still remembered among us owing to his gloomy and tragic death, which happened thirteen years ago, and which I shall describe in its proper place.† (source)
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