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...

In the five novels by Ireland's greatest comic writer we can explore the full range of his invention, from the multi-layered...

This ribald, high-spirited novel, whose author was described by Diderot as 'the Rabelais of the English', provoked literary...

Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, published 1871–2, is set in the imaginary county of Loamshire during the years of unrest...

An attack on war which broadens into a satire on the Ancien Regime of the Austro-Hungarian empire, The Good Soldier Svejk...

Kafka was an obsessive writer who produced a huge volume of stories, novels, diaries and letters in his brief lifetime. The...

Considered by many readers, including Shaw, Chesterton, Conrad and Trilling, as one of Dickens’s finest achievements, Bleak House...

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

In this remarkable trilogy, Richard Ford creates one of the most enduring and empathetic characters in contemporary American...

With this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Thomas Mann rose to the front ranks of the great modern novelists, winning the Nobel...

Written over a period of more than half a century, Tolstoy’s enchanting short stories and novellas reflect every aspect of his...