A mysterious stranger named Chichikov arrives in a small provincial Russian town and proceeds to visit a succession of...

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

The career of Mikhail Bulgakov, the author of Master and Margarita - now regarded as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century...

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

Imbued with a comic nostalgia and overlaid with Dovlatov's characteristically dark-edged humour and wry power of observation, The...

What could be better during the golden age of boating on the Thames than a relaxing row up the river? So think J., George and...

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...

The most widely staged dramatist after Shakespeare, Chekhov left a deep mark both on the development of Russian literature and...

First published in 1921, this volume collects some of the most comical stories Kipling published throughout his writing career....

On a train journey, Pozdnyshev tells his story to a stranger: how his relationship with his wife gradually deteriorated from one...

On the eve of the Crimean War, the young, headstrong Yelena, the daughter of aristocratic Russian parents, falls in love with a...

Combining psychological detail with a strong sense of place and time, this tale bears all the hallmarks of Chekhov's genius, and...

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

This collection of lesser-known early short fiction - ranging from absurd humorous sketches to psychological dramas and tragic...

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

Presented as a series of letters between the humble copying-clerk Devushkin and a distant relative of his, the young Varenka,...

Set during the Pugachov rebellion against Catherine the Great, The Captain's Daughter was Pushkin's only completed novel and...

In a series of nine letters, the narrator tells his friend how he introduced Vera Nikolayevna, a married woman who had been...