Not having read the Idiot, I don't know whether the characters were posh or not, but anyone of what today would be upper middle would fall into the bilingual group.

The combination should make for a must-listen audiobook, Fyodor M. Dostoevsky, Author, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Author, Kenneth Lantz, Translator Northwestern University Press $46 (644p) ISBN ...

Joseph Epstein writes of a Harvard economics professor by the name of Alexander Gerschenkron who claimed to have read ...

163 weeks on the list by David Grann Vintage The story of a murder spree in 1920s Oklahoma that targeted Osage Indians, whose lands contained oil. The fledgling F.B.I. intervened, ineffectively.

Established in 1961, Penguin’s Modern Classics series has featured a huge array of titles and authors – everyone from Carson McCullers and Vladimir Nabokov through to James Joyce and Virginia Woolf.

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “The Brothers Karamazov” (1880) bears a heavy burden. Most scholars regard this Russian classic — roughly ...

The United States says an independent Palestinian state should be established through direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority and not through UN action. Information ...

That was the position [Anders Nielsen] found himself in as work progresses on his “PC-XT from Scratch” project, which seeks to build a working mid-80s vintage IBM Model 5160 using as many ...

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Prefer old-school classics? It’s A Wonderful Life, White Christmas, or Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer are always solid choices. Want something with a newer touch? Maybe Elf, Bad Santa ...

Mark-Paul Gosselaar Feels 'Awful' About Quiet on Set Allegations but Is Thankful He Came Out 'Unscathed' as Teen Actor Tiffani Thiessen Jokes She's 'Over the Hill' While Posing in Just a Sheet for ...