Fyodor Dostoevski
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- The Possessed (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Crime and Punishment (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- The Brothers Karamazov (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Diary of a Writer (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
- Bobok (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
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- Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Although most of Fyodor Dostoevski’s major works deal with crime, especially murder and suicide, only two of his works fit into the genre of detective fiction, and only one is frequently associated with the popular form known as the murder mystery. Bratya Karamazovy (1879-1880; The Brothers Karamazov, 1912) deals with a murder, a manhunt, and a trial, but Prestupleniye i nakazaniye (1866; Crime and Punishment, 1886) focuses more closely on the nature of crime and its detection. In Crime and Punishment, Dostoevski...
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