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A superb new translation by Judson Rosengrant of Tolstoy's semi-autobiographical trilogy

Leo Tolstoy began his trilogy,...

This volume includes Family Happiness; The Kreutzer Sonata; The Devil and Father Sergius. The four stories are all about love,...

Leo Tolstoy's last completed novel, Resurrection is an intimate, psychological tale of guilt, anger and forgiveness, translated...

Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in the provincial town of 'N', visiting a succession of landowners and making each a...

Morn, a masked king, rules over a realm to which he has restored order after a violent revolution. Secretly in love with Midia,...

Smurov, a fussily self-conscious Russian tutor, shoots himself after a humiliating beating by his mistress' husband. Unsure...

This collection of eleven stories spans virtually the whole of Tolstoy's creative life. While each is unique in form, as a group...

The Queen of Spades has long been acknowledged as one of the world's greatest short stories. In this classic literary...

Conceived twenty years before its initial publication in 1869, and regarded by its author as his best work, Malinovka Heights...

Inspired by real events and centring on the figure of Pelageya Vlasova – the mother of the title – and her son Pavel, Gorky’s...

As ideological ferment grips Russia, a small group of revolutionaries, led by Pyotr Verkhovensky and inspired by Nikolai...

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

One of the great achievements of twentieth-century Russian emigre literature, Dark Avenues - translated here for the first time...

Based on Dovlatov's actual experience of being a prison guard in Soviet Russia in the 1960s, and full of comic and humane detail,...

This second volume of Tolstoy's shorter fiction, selected by the critic Sharon Cameron, contains 'Family Happiness', 'The Devil'...

In May 1941 Lena Mukhina was an ordinary teenage girl, living in Leningrad, worrying about her homework and whether Vova - the...

Anna is a beautiful, intelligent woman whose passionate affair with the dashing Count Vronsky leads her to ruin. But her story is...

'As good as anything Tolstoy ever wrote... Self-assured, vital, unforgettable' Guardian

The title story of this collection is...

These short works, ranging from Tolstoy's earliest tales to the brilliant title story, are rich in the insights and passion that...

Leskov’s stories of Russian life are explosions of imagination. Peopled by outsized characters including serfs, princes, Gypsy...

'For the mind, everthing is in the future' Platonov once wrote; 'for the heart, everything is in the past'. The protagonist of...

Turgenev’s most celebrated story examines the conflict of generations and attitudes in mid-nineteenth-century Russia, as distant...

Throughout his life Isaac Babel was torn by opposing forces, by the desire both to remain faithful to his Jewish roots and yet to...

Doctor Zhivago is the epic novel of Russia in the throes of revolution and one of the greatest love stories ever told. Yuri...

"Tolstoy's lavish and always graphic use of detail," wrote John Bayley, "together of course with its romance and exotic setting ....

An original selection of short fiction from one of the greats of Russian literature

A wounded solider vanishes into...

Essayist and poet Joseph Brodsky was one of the most penetrating voices of the twentieth century. This prize-winning collection...

Rediscover the magic of Russian folktales in a breathtaking illustrated edition.

This collection of traditional stories will...

The Steppe and Other Stories 1887-91 is a collection that reveals Anton Chekhov's evolution from a novice writer to a master of...

Anton Chekhov's only full-length novel, this Penguin Classics edition of The Shooting Party is translated and edited by Ronald...