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A play ought to be written in which people should come and go, dine, talk of the weather or play cards... because that is what...

This Arcturus Classics edition presents two of Dostoevsky's shorter novels in one volume, Notes from the Underground and The...

Five masterful dramatic works from one of the world's best-loved playwrights, including The Seagull-now a major motion picture...

Nabokov described this novella, written in Paris in 1939 but only published twenty years later, as 'the first little throb of...

Turgenev's first literary masterpiece was an eloquent evocation of rural Russia in the mid-nineteenth century. A hunter wanders...

In the title piece of this collection a party of guests wonder at the great comet which has appeared in the sky, and give their...

The small town of Mordasov is all abuzz at the arrival of Prince K—, a wealthy, ageing landowner, after an absence of several...

In the Twilight, the third collection of short stories compiled by Anton Chekhov himself, was his first major success and won him...

The civil servant Ivan Matveich and his wife Yelena Ivanovna are spectators of an exhibition – in a shopping arcade – of a...

Set in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev during the chaotic winter of 1918–19, The White Guard, Bulgakov’s first full-length novel,...

The mayor and local officials of a small provincial town in Russia have got it made: corruption is rife and they have all the...

On his travels through the wild mountainous terrain of the Caucasus, the narrator of A Hero of Our Time chances upon the veteran...

Leo Tolstoy's most personal novel, Anna Karenina scrutinizes fundamental ethical and theological questions through the tragic...

New translation by Hugh Aplin. Using a sharply realistic and humorous style, Bulgakov reveals his doubts about his own competence...

First published in 1831, Belkin’s Stories was the first completed work of fiction by the founding father of Russian literature....

One of the many aspects of Alexander Pushkin's immense contribution to Russian language and literature, and perhaps the one he is...

While at a party organized by the local landowner for the officers of his brigade, the shy and awkward Ryabovich is suddenly...

Includes pictures and an extensive section on Dostoevsky's life and works.
After spending several years in a sanatorium...

The Karamazov Brothers is the greatest passionate philosophical novel in the Russian literature that enters deeply into the...

Notes from Underground and Other Stories is a comprehensive collection of Dostoevsky's short fiction. Many of these stories, like...

The heroine of Tolstoy's epic of love and self-destruction, Anna Karenina has beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son, but...

Raskolnikoff, a young student, has been forced to give up his university studies because of lack of money. He withdraws from...

'The greatest love story I've ever read' Andrew Davies

Anna Karenina is a novel of unparalleled richness and complexity, set...

As relevant today as when it was first published, We is the first modern dystopian novel which inspired both Nineteen Eighty-Four...

The dystopian masterwork that inspired George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, We depicts a futuristic totalitarian society,...

Bringing into harsh focus the daily struggle for existence in a Soviet gulag, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of...

The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories is a collection of stories that emerged from a profound spiritual crisis, during which...

Nikolai Gogol's short fiction, collected here as The Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector and Selected Stories, deeply...

A troubled young man commits the perfect crime - the murder of a vile pawnbroker whom no one will miss. Raskolnikov is desperate...

Published in 1852, when he was just twenty-four, Childhood was Tolstoy’s first published work, and the first of a trilogy of...