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

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

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

Venya is more interested in how much he and his colleagues can drink during the working day than in his job. Once he is fired, he...

In this stunning final work of fiction, the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich introduces an...

'I am a sick person. I am a spiteful person. An unattractive person, too …'
In the depths of a cellar in St. Petersburg, a...

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

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

A man goes mad because he is happy.

A civil servant behaves like a monster at a wedding-party.

A man is swallowed by a...

Set during the catastrophic defeats of the war's first months, it tracks a Red Army regiment that wins a minor victory in eastern...

With charm and warmth, Turgenev writes of provincial life in a quiet, yet remarkably astute style.
This riverrun edition of...

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

A wounded solider vanishes into...

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

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

Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as...

Initially an almost grotesquely comic figure, Pnin gradually grows in stature by contrast with those who laugh at him. Whether...

This study of natural goodness is Dostoevsky's most touching novel. Prince Myshkin, the last, poverty-stricken member of a once...

The new expanded Everyman edition of Pushkin's prose fiction contains all his mature work. In addition to 'The Captain's...

Foreshadowing his later detailed accounts of the Soviet prison-camp system, Solzhenitsyn's classic portrayal of life in the gulag...

This volume contains two of the world's great love stories - First Love, and Spring Torrents, which show Turgenev at his very...

A famous legend surrounding the creation of Anna Karenina tells us that Tolstoy began writing a cautionary tale about adultery...

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

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

Based around the pivotal WWII battle of Stalingrad (1942-3), where the German advance into Russia was eventually halted by the...

In 1849 the young Fyodor Dostoevsky was sentenced to four years' hard labour in a Siberian prison camp for advocating socialism....

Discover one of Twentieth-Century Russia's most lauded lost classics, now in a remarakble new translation.

'Outstanding... A...

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

A masterfully rendered volume of Chekhov's stories from award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa...

The story of a passionate young woman who escapes her stifling marriage through adultery and murder, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk is...

A dark classic of Russia's silver age, this blackly funny novel recounts a schoolteacher's descent into sadism, arson and...