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Introduction by Malcolm Jones

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Dostoevsky’s greatest novel is a story of murder told with hair-raising intellectual clarity and a feeling for the human condition unsurpassed in world literature. Fyodor Dostoevsky’s final novel, published just before his death in 1881, chronicles the bitter love-hate struggle between a larger-than-life father and his three very different sons. The author's towering reputation as one of the handful of thinkers who forged the modern sensibility has sometimes obscured the purely novelistic virtues—brilliant characterizations, flair for suspense and melodrama, instinctive theatricality—that made his work so immensely popular in nineteenth-century Russia. This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky—the definitive version in English—magnificently captures the rich and subtle energies of Dostoevsky’s masterpiece." Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Everyman’s Library Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.

Sabahattin Ali's Cursed Light

by Sabahattin Ali

"Remember. There are words that outlive bullets." Sabahattin Ali is not only the most beloved figure in Turkish literature, but also its most tragic. He lived to write, and he paid the price for living. This study examines the author's life as a preliminary reading of his works. The text begins with "Sis" (Eğridere, 1907), a legacy of Ali Selahattin Bey's bureaucratic rootlessness, and concludes with "İhanet" (1948), which takes place in the Thracian forests. This epic is the story of an epiphany that Sabahattin Ali calls "The Cursed Light" a tragic epiphany where the courage to see the truth is paid with life. The Path of This Book: Kuyucaklı Yusuf: The first, resounding blow of the rebellion born of the rootlessness of the author's childhood against the moral decay of Anatolia. The Devil Within Us: The shocking anatomy of the hypocrisy, hypocrisy, and betrayal encountered in intellectual circles by an intellectual conscience relocating from Berlin to Ankara. Madonna in a Fur Coat: The lyrical elegy of the author, seeking eternal refuge for his soul amidst political oppression and exile, finding it in Maria Puder's impossible love. The text also serves as a political archive, illuminating the author's epic struggle with the Marko Pasha magazine, his imprisonment, and ultimately, the backdrop of his assassination. His death was not a simple smuggling case; it became a symbol of a voice silenced by a cold, bureaucratic execution. This book is a must for anyone who wants to understand why Sabahattin Ali was not only a writer but also an intellectual who paid the price for truth with his life. His voice continues to outlive the bullets.