Жанр "Классическая отечественная проза на англ. языке"

The pioneer of modern Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin has exerted – through his novel in verse Eugene Onegin, his plays,...

Combining psychological detail with a strong sense of place and time, this tale bears all the hallmarks of Chekhov's genius, and...

Coming back to the "nest" of his family home in Russia after years of fruitless endeavours away from his roots, Lavretsky decides...

The judge Ivan Ilyich Golovin has spent his life in the pursuit of wealth and status, devoting himself obsessively to work and...

Translated by Constance Garnett.
With an introduction by A. Briggs.

Constantly rebuffed from the social circles he aspires to frequent, the timid clerk Golyadkin is confronted by the sudden...

A mysterious stranger named Chichikov arrives in a small provincial Russian town and proceeds to visit a succession of...

Newly repackaged, here are the five masterpieces by one of the world's greatest playwrights, in translation by Ann Dunnigan. As...

The tide of change is coming. Madam Ranyevskaya's liberal world of privilege and pleasure is beginning to show cracks, but she...

Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения.

Anna Karenina is one of the most loved and memorable heroines of literature. Her...

This collection of lesser-known early short fiction - ranging from absurd humorous sketches to psychological dramas and tragic...

Russia in the 1840s. There is a stranger in town, and he is behaving oddly. The unctuous Pavel Chichikov goes around the local...

On a train journey, Pozdnyshev tells his story to a stranger: how his relationship with his wife gradually deteriorated from one...

Presented as a series of letters between the humble copying-clerk Devushkin and a distant relative of his, the young Varenka,...

In June 1862, Dostoevsky left Petersburg on his first excursion to Western Europe. Ostensibly making the trip to consult Western...

On the eve of the Crimean War, the young, headstrong Yelena, the daughter of aristocratic Russian parents, falls in love with a...

Over the last fifteen years of his life, Tolstoy collected and published the maxims of some of the world's greatest masters of...

A new translation of the hilarious picaresque about a man with an indomitable spirit The Enchanted Wanderer is a Russian Candide...

The career of Mikhail Bulgakov, the author of Master and Margarita - now regarded as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century...

Returning home from the University of St. Petersburg, Arkady Kirsanov discovers that, while he has changed, the world he left...

Anton Chekhov was one of Russian literature's greatest short story writers. This collection brings together twenty-five of his...

One of the most accomplished authors in history, Tolstoy has inspired and influenced generations of readers. While celebrated for...

Maxim Gorky's short stories provide a candid and unflinching portrayal of life among the downtrodden of Russian society. Drawing...

Turgenev's final novel, Virgin Soil traces the destinies of several middle-class revolutionaries who seek to “go to the people”...

Fleeing Russia amid the chaos of the 1917 revolution and subsequent Civil War, many writers went on to settle in Paris, Berlin...

Rodion Raskolnikov is a handsome, yet impoverished student. Morally conflicted, he believes that extraordinary men who contribute...

Ivan Bunin's first published work, The Village is a bleak and uncompromising portrayal of rural life in south-west Russia. Set at...

The Idiot is a remarkable literary feat; a true accomplishment. It not only shows and represents true human complexity, but it...

A rich, successful Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and attempts a scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles...

With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old Dr Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of rural Russia...