Over the last fifteen years of his life, Tolstoy collected and published the maxims of some of the world's greatest masters of...

On his travels through the wild mountainous terrain of the Caucasus, the narrator of A Hero of Our Time chances upon the veteran...

When Sara Crewe is brought from India to attend Miss Minchin’s boarding school for girls in London, she arrives looking rather...

Trapped in an unhappy marriage with a boorish, inattentive and socially ambitious husband, Julie de Chaverny enjoys a flirtatious...

Four sailors discover a copper cylinder containing a manuscript written by the adventurer Adam More, who was shipwrecked in the...

A Village Romeo and Juliet is a bitter-sweet tragedy telling the tale of two young lovers kept apart by a family feud. Inspired...

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

Leo Tolstoy's most personal novel, Anna Karenina scrutinizes fundamental ethical and theological questions through the tragic...

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

Dual-Language Edition.

Dante's best friend and a major exponent of the Dolce Stil Novo, Guido Cavalcanti has had a lasting...

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

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

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

When Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and their baby brother start exploring a gravel pit not far from their new countryside home,...

Published soon after Fitzgerald’s debut novel This Side of Paradise, Flappers and Philosophers was the author’s first collection...

Hadji Murat, one of the most feared and venerated mountain chiefs in the Caucasian struggle against the Russians, defects from...

On a boat in the Thames estuary, Marlow tells his travelling companions of his reconnaissance expedition for a Belgian trading...

Orphaned at an early age, Heidi has been brought up by her mother’s sister Dete in Switzerland. Having been offered a job in...

The first story in this volume, How the Two Ivans Quarrelled, is an amusing portrayal of two exceptionally close friends, the...

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

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

After the death of his father, the seventeen-year-old orphan David Balfour discovers the existence of an uncle, and sets off in...

Set against the beautiful backdrop of the Vosges mountains, Lenz tells the tale of the real-life writer J.M.R. Lenz’s...

Growing up in a poor New York neighbourhood, Cedric Errol appears to be a normal American boy. However, as he discovers when he...

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

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

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

Eichendorff's prose masterpiece - a picaresque account of the wanderings of a young man who leaves home after a row with his...

While on a journey with his wife to Prague for the opening night of Don Giovanni, Mozart is caught picking an orange on the...

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