Happily engaged to the poet Amandus, Fraulein Anna is horrified to discover that a beautiful ring, mysteriously deposited upon...

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

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

Having crash-landed in the Sahara desert, a pilot comes across a young boy who introduces himself as the Little Prince and tells...

When Cyril, Anthea, Robert and Jane accidentally destroy a carpet in their London home with fireworks, their parents replace it...

Having lived in the city of Orphalese for twelve years, the revered Prophet is about to board a ship taking him back to the isle...

Roberta, Phyllis and Peter have their comfortable lives in London thrown into disarray by the unexpected disappearance of their...

Published posthumously, The Red Notebook is an account of the youth of the author of the seminal Romantic novel Adolphe, relating...

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

"After a while, with the parrot's help, the Doctor got to learn the language of the animals so well that he could talk to them...

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

Ivan Bunin's first published work, The Village is a bleak and uncompromising portrayal of rural life in south-west Russia. Set at...

When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror seize the population. As the aliens traverse the country in...

Set in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev during the chaotic winter of 1918–19, The White Guard, Bulgakov’s first full-length novel,...

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

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...

One of Tolstoy’s last published works of fiction, The Devil revolves around the young landowner Yevgeny’s irrepressible lust for...

In the title piece of this collection a party of guests wonder at the great comet which has appeared in the sky, and give their...

Portraying the characters and events of a small Midwestern town at the end of the nineteenth century, Winesburg, Ohio is a...