Existentialist Novels

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (novels not included). Pages: 77. Chapters: The Trial, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Heart of Darkness, The Shockwave Rider, The Metamorphosis, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, Ubik, A Scanner Darkly, Crime and Punishment, Steppenwolf, The Brothers Karamazov, The Castle, The Possessed, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Lathe of Heaven, Invisible Man, The Idiot, Notes from Underground, Papa Sartre, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, El T nel, The Gambler, As I Lay Dying, Invisible Monsters, Amerika, Not by Bread Alone, Zorba the Greek, Katow, Man's Fate, The Contortionist's Handbook, The Penultimate Truth, Sartor Resartus, We Can Build You, Kiss Me, Judas, The Double: A Petersburg Poem, Cowboys for Christ, The Raw Youth, Pincher Martin, Phineas Poe, The Pigeon, The Royal Way, Godspeed. Excerpt: Crime and Punishment (Russian: Pryestupleniye i nakazaniye) is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments during 1866. It was later published in a single volume. This is the second of Dostoyevsky's full-length novels following his return from five years of exile in Siberia, where he was serving his sentence in Katorga camps, the Tsarist forced-labor system and equivalent to the Soviet Gulag. Crime and Punishment is the first great novel of his "mature period" of writing. Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in St. Petersburg who formulates and executes a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her money. Raskolnikov argues that with the pawnbroker's money he can perform good deeds to counterbalance the crime, while ridding the world of a worthless parasite. He also commits this murder to test his own hypothesis that some peopl...