ABRIDGED EDITION
What if you actually made progress in English by reading a masterpiece — no dictionary, no effort, no giving up?
This book is a bilingual edition: it contains the abridged novel in English AND in Russian, together in the same volume. You read English; Russian is right there to help you.
Why a bilingual book? Unlike apps and textbooks, you learn with a real story that makes you want to turn the page. It is the most natural immersion method there is.
— THE METHOD —
Ordinary bilingual editions make you lose the thread: the English text on the left, the Russian text on the right, and your eyes darting back and forth hunting for the right line. The result: you give up in the first few pages.
Polyglot Publishing invented something else: synchronised line-by-line alternation. Every line in English is followed directly beneath by the same line in Russian — like subtitles, but on paper.
• Understand everything, instantly — the meaning of each word is checked at a glance, with no dictionary and no phone
• Improve without noticing — your brain links the two languages unconsciously, sentence after sentence, and English grammar sinks in naturally
• Learn English by finally reading what you love — a real novel, not textbook dialogue
Suitable for every level: the translation helps when you need it — and never gets in the way of your reading.
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— THE BOOK —
Fyodor Karamazov, a debauched father, is set against his eldest son Dmitri over an inheritance and the same woman. Around them Ivan, tormented by the problem of evil, and Alyosha, a novice at the monastery, take opposite paths, while the servant Smerdyakov looks on.
When the old man is murdered, suspicion falls on Dmitri, and the trial forces each of them to say what he believes. The novel explores guilt, freedom and faith in a world where all seems permitted. Dostoevsky pushes a murder story as far as asking who in a family is innocent.
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