Dostoevsky is the only one of the bunch still in the front row for the 21st. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Why Choose?] Reference
I note that on twitter someone was mounting the case that Dostoevsky is better than Tolstoy. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Why Choose?] Reference
Does anybody out there in LJ land know if the quote Sartre attributes to Dostoevsky is accurate?. From Wordnik.com. [Something else I had forgotten about running--] Reference
Dostoevsky is also an illustration of the power of great writing to convey radically unsound or even totally nonsensical ideas. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Influential Books] Reference
To paraphrase Dostoevsky, try to read the above and not think of Blogging Tory "Neo Conservative.". From Wordnik.com. [How the heroes have fallen.] Reference
And to complicate things, I’ve just posted a new one which, like the Fante or the Murdoch or the Dostoevsky, is close to my cuffs. From Wordnik.com. [The Winter Journey (Le Voyage D’Hiver) | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast] Reference
The ruler then serves as a model and a test case: if his actions go unpunished, then, to paraphrase Dostoevsky, everything is permitted. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare and the Uses of Power] Reference
MsR: can you give me the home address of the person who said 'Dostoevsky'?. From Wordnik.com. [Come clean: The books you ditched] Reference
Tanya eventually does meet her own "Dostoevsky" of sorts, a writer named Mark. From Wordnik.com. [Lara Vapnyar discusses her first novel, Memoirs of a Muse, about a Russian immigrant determined to become the muse of a famous artist.] Reference
Assuming of guilt between Brothers in Dostoevsky. From Wordnik.com. [An Idiot is Never Worth Your Time or More Mythomania for Your Buck An Idiot is Never Worth Your Time or More Mythomania for] Reference
Dostoevsky wrote fiction and used a pen name, too. From Wordnik.com. [Kafka] Reference
Dostoevsky was both a Western and a non-Western writer. From Wordnik.com. [Nathan Gardels: A Talk With Orhan Pamuk: Caressing the World With Words] Reference
In 1849, Dostoevsky was arrested and sentenced to death. From Wordnik.com. [Address at the General Assembly of the African Ombudsman Association (AOA)] Reference
I mean, only Dostoevsky is Dostoevsky, last time I checked. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 17, 2002] Reference
Writers like Dostoevsky and Tolstoy served as spiritual beacons. From Wordnik.com. [Solzhenitsyn Goes Home] Reference
And it is here that Gorki seems to us almost to surpass Dostoevsky. From Wordnik.com. [Maxim Gorki] Reference
Dostoevsky is named 8crmp10 for the 8-bit version with accents, and. From Wordnik.com. [The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002] Reference
As for claptrap, there is far more of it in Tolstoy than in Dostoevsky. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Windolf: A Q&A with Tolstoy and Dostoevsky Translator Richard Pevear: Jim Windolf] Reference
I read a lot of Dostoevsky in college and the years immediately afterward. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Windolf: A Q&A with Tolstoy and Dostoevsky Translator Richard Pevear: Jim Windolf] Reference
Like Dostoevsky she believed that only through beauty will the world be saved. From Wordnik.com. [Jeanne's Song, 2010] Reference
Dostoevsky was in fact a consummate artist, and Tolstoy, at times, a clumsy hack. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Windolf: A Q&A with Tolstoy and Dostoevsky Translator Richard Pevear: Jim Windolf] Reference
In Milton and Melville, Dante and Dostoevsky, the Devil found writers worthy of his stature. From Wordnik.com. [Do We Need Satan?] Reference
Like Dostoevsky, Wilson has a real gift for physical descriptions, vivid anecdotes and drama. From Wordnik.com. [All Aboard Historical Thriller 'Finland Station'] Reference
A Certified Important Book you haven't read: Too many to mention: all Tolstoy, all Dostoevsky. From Wordnik.com. [A Life In Books] Reference
Hornby is a step or 12 behind Dostoevsky, but his books glide more easily onto the big screen. From Wordnik.com. [Bye-Bye, 'American Pie'] Reference
Dostoevsky is too difficult, and Danielle Steel is too ... well, there must be a middle ground. From Wordnik.com. [Beach Reading Without Guilt] Reference
Didn't Dostoevsky write major novels as a literary protest against such POLITICAL PROSECUTIONS?. From Wordnik.com. [Jeanine Molloff: Where Are Clinton And Obama On The "Homegrown Terrorism Act"?] Reference
And President Reagan at that point responded that he had read Dostoevsky during his college years. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 6, 2004] Reference
Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky and Kafka were three of the finest fiction writers to ever put a pen to paper. From Wordnik.com. [Kafka] Reference
Of course, when one studies European literature, one studies Pushkin and Tolstoy, Chekhov and Dostoevsky. From Wordnik.com. [Terror Stalks The Terrorist] Reference
I don't think we Londoners can swipe Dostoevsky, of course: we'd need an author with a more British flavour. From Wordnik.com. [Give us more literature on public transport] Reference
Like a pulp Dostoevsky, he created characters who were driven, conflicted, extravagant, sometimes even sociopathic. From Wordnik.com. [Sam Fuller, Embodying The Best Of Pulp Fiction] Reference
Munch told a friend that no one in the arts had yet traveled as far as Dostoevsky "into the mystical realms of the soul.". From Wordnik.com. [Beyond 'The Scream'] Reference
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