The House of the Dead recounts the story of Alexander Goryanchikov, a gentleman who is sent to a prison colony in Siberia for...

Written in 1932, but not published until 1962, over twenty years after its author’s death, The Life of Monsieur de Moliere charts...

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

On a visit to a provincial town to see his sister Nina who is suffering from cancer, Alexei Laptev, who works for his father's...

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

The four March sisters – Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth – live in financial hardship in New England with their mother, while their father...

A classic collection of animal stories, here presented in its entirity with a beautiful cover illustrated by Ian Beck. It...

Anne is an orphan with a penchant for daydreaming and distinctive flaming-red hair that catches the eye of everyone she meets....

Originally conceived by its author as an entertaining story for Alice Liddell, the daughter of an Oxford dean, Alice's Adventures...

These five stories were collected and published as Tales of Unrest in 1898, shortly before Heart of Darkness, the first of...

A murderer is forced to reveal his crime by the sound of a beating heart, a mysterious figure wreaks havoc among a party of...

A drama of ambition, murder, remorse and retribution, Boris Godunov charts the decline of a Russian statesman, whose dynastic...

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

An unsuccessful writer and an inveterate alcoholic, Boris Alikhanov is running out of money and has recently divorced from his...