Read "Crime and Punishment" loved it, what next?

If you liked Dostoyevski, you can (and should) read The Brothers Karamazov. Alternatively, try Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. You are lucky if you like 19th-c. Russians, there are a lot of them and they're fantastic.

Alternatively, try Proust's Swann’s Way from his In Search of Lost Time cycle. Not too shabby either :-)

Enjoy!

kudos to you. you went out on a limb and read a russian classic.i am going to suggest an american author that is recognized as a"classical" writer.try some the point is that a good story id a good story, ecpecially when presente dby a master(i am thinking you have not read him) this will satisfy your appetite for real classical prose.there is not the historical background evident but he paints a picture that is as satisfying as you could desire. you renew my faith...also, you have made my day! thank you.please let me know if you like hemmingway as i have more sugestions.

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky book with a great deal of trepidation. I had never read Dostoyevsky, and was concerned that I would get bogged down in some lengthy, mind-numbingly boring, nineteenth-century treatise on the bestial nature of man or something. I am happy to report this is not the case. Instead, and to my delight, it is a smoothly flowing and fascinating story of a young man who succumbs to the most base desire, and the impact this has both psychologically and otherwise on himself and those around him.