{"product_id":"fyodor-dostoyevsky-3book-boxed-set-isbn-9780241765784","title":"Fyodor Dostoyevsky 3-Book Boxed Set","description":"\u003cb\u003eA beautiful boxed set of Dostoyevsky's three greatest novels\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis stunning clothbound set, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, brings together Dostoyevsky's three greatest novels in modern translations from Penguin Classics. In \u003ci\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov\u003c\/i\u003e, a murder changes the lives of four brothers forever; in \u003ci\u003eCrime and Punishment \u003c\/i\u003ea student commits an appalling act of random violence; and in \u003ci\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/i\u003e, a gentle and naive aristocrat finds himself drawn into a web of blackmail and betrayal.\u003cb\u003eFyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Moscow in 1821. His debut, the epistolary novella \u003ci\u003ePoor Folk\u003c\/i\u003e (1846), made his name. In 1849 he was arrested for involvement with the politically subversive 'Petrashevsky circle' and until 1854 he lived in a convict prison in Omsk, Siberia. From this experience came \u003ci\u003eThe House of the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e (1860-2). In 1860 he began the journal \u003ci\u003eVremya (Time)\u003c\/i\u003e. Already married, he fell in love with one of his contributors, Appollinaria Suslova, eighteen years his junior, and developed a ruinous passion for roulette. After the death of his first wife, Maria, in 1864, Dostoyevsky completed \u003ci\u003eNotes from Underground\u003c\/i\u003e and began work towards \u003ci\u003eCrime and Punishment\u003c\/i\u003e (1866). The major novels of his late period are \u003ci\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/i\u003e (1868), \u003ci\u003eDemons\u003c\/i\u003e (1871-2) and \u003ci\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov\u003c\/i\u003e (1879-80). He died in 1881.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233184723173,"sku":"NP9780241765784","price":94.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780241765784.jpg?v=1767727819","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/fyodor-dostoyevsky-3book-boxed-set-isbn-9780241765784","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}