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The Gollovlev Family
Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov
The Golovlyov Family is regarded as a classic of Russian literature. According to D. S. Mirsky, it is “the gloo
The Precipice
Ivan Gonchorov
According to Goncharov, the idea of the third novel came to him in 1849 when he returned to his native Simbirsk
The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse
Vicente Blasco Ibañez
The novel, first published in 1916, tells a tangled tale of the French and German sons-in-law of an Argentinian
Lamiel
Stendhal
Marie-Henri Beyle, better known by his pen name Stendhal, was a 19th-century French writer. Known for his acute
Devils
Fyodor Dostoevsky
In 1869 a young Russian was strangled, shot through the head and thrown into a pond. His crime? A wish to leave
We
Yevgeny Zamyatin
We takes place in a distant future, where humans are forced to submit their wills to the requirements of the st
Troubled Sleep
Jean-Paul Sartre
Powerfully depicts the fall of France in 1940, and the anguished response of the French people to the German oc
Lost Illusions
Honoré de Balzac
Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his name in his
The Romance of Leonardo Da Vinci
Dmitri Merejkowski
How Leonardo da Vinci become a creative genius? How did he live, love, suffer? With a care for detail & an insp
Zadig / L’ingenu
Voltaire
One of Voltaire’s earliest tales, Zadig is set in the exotic East and is told in the comic spirit of Candide; L
Seven Hanged
Leonid Andreyev
It was like walking along the knife-edge of the highest possible mountain range, seeing life on one side and de
Moll Flanders
Daniel Defoe
The Fortunes & Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders (aka Moll Flanders) is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first pu
The Complete Novels
Franz Kafka
Kafkas characters are victims of forces beyond their control, estranged and rootless citizens deceived by autho
Tono-Bungay
H G Wells
Presented as a miraculous cure-all, Tono-Bungay is in fact nothing other than a pleasant-tasting liquid with no
Humphry Clinker
Tobias Smollett
Offers a picture of eighteenth-century society. This story describes Squire Brambles tour of the Britain of Geo
The Vintage Turgenev
Volume 1
Ivan Turgenev
Turgenev has merits denied to Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky that give him a secure place among the worlds supreme nov
The Aeneid
Virgil
The Aeneid is an epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a
The Pit and the Pendulum
Edgar Allan Poe
The Pit and the Pendulum is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe. The story centres around the torments end
The Lifted Veil
Goerge Eliot
Published the same year as her first novel, Adam Bede, this overlooked work displays the gifts for which George
Three Sketches from a Hunters Album
Ivan Turgenev
Early stories from a master of Russian literature. When first published in book form in 1852, Turgenevs remarka
The Murders In The Rue Morgue
Edgar Allan Poe
The Murders in the Rue Morgue is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham s Magazine in 1841. It ha
A Visitation of the Plague
Daniel Defoe
One of 60 low-priced classic texts published to celebrate Penguin s 60th anniversary. All the titles are extrac
Etiquette For Renaissance Gentlemen
Baldesar Castiglione
A classic quidebook for noblemen. Upon its publication in 1528, Castigliones handbook was considered something
The Black Monk
And Peasants
Anton Chekhov
In ancient times a happy man grew at last frightened of his happiness — it was so great — and to propitiate t
Mina Laury
Charlotte Brontë
Set in the imaginary kingdom of Angria, Charlotte Brontë s early story of the Duke of Zamorna and his loyal
The Pleasures and Pains of Opium
Revelations of ecstacy and torment
Thomas de Quincey
Thomas De Quincey began taking opium in 1804. For him it was the key to Paradise, as he experienced visions of
Micromégas And Other Short Fictions
Voltaire
Micromegas is a 650-year-old, 39-kilometer-high giant from the planet Sirius who can speak 1,000 languages and
collection, enlightenment, fantasy, french, philosophy, scifi
Darkness at Noon
Arthur Koestler
Darkness at Noon (from the German: Sonnenfinsternis) is a novel by the Hungarian-born British novelist Arthur K
The Aleph and Other Stories
Jorge Luis Borges
Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges most fully reali
The Complete Works of Rabelais
Gargantua and Pantagruel
François Rabelais
Rip-roaring and rib-tickling, François Rabelais irreverent story of the giant Gargantua, his giant son Pantagr
The Leopard
Tomasi Di Lampedusa
The Leopard is a story of a decadent and dying aristocracy threatened by the forces of revolution and democracy
Penguin Island
Anatole France
Penguin Island is a satirical novel by Anatole France first published in 1908. The book details the history of
A Month In The Country
A Comedy in Five Acts
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
One week before her thirtieth birthday, the simple life of dutiful wife and mother Natalya is upended when the
The Reprieve
Jean-Paul Sartre
An extraordinary picture of life in France during the critical eight days before the signing of the fateful Mun
Rienzi
Last of the Tribunes
Edward Bulwer Lytton
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on eac
Gullivers Travels
Jonathan Swift
For the last 250 years people everywhere have enjoyed reading about Lemuel Gullivers travels in the strange cou
History of the Thirteen
Honoré De Balzac
This trilogy of storie’s Ferragus: Chief of the Companions of Duty, The Duchesse De Langeais, and The Girl with
The Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio
The Decameron (c.1351) is an entertaining series of one hundred stories written in the wake of the Black Death.
Trilby
Goerge Du Maurier
First published in 1894, the story of the diva Trilby O Ferrall and her mentor, Svengali, has entered the mytho
The Overcoat and Other Short Stories
Nikolai Gogol
Four works by great 19th-century Russian author – The Nose, a savage satire of Russias incompetent bureaucrats;
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The Egoist
Goerge Meredith
In this, the most dazzlingly intellectual of all his novels, Meredith tries to illuminate the pretensions of th
The Debacle
Émile Zola
The penultimate novel of the Rougon-Macquart cycle, La Debacle (1892) takes as its subject the dramatic events
Claudius The God
And His Wife Messalina
Robert Graves
Robert Graves begins anew the tumultuous life of the Roman who became emperor in spite of himself. Captures the
Resurrection
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Resurrection (1899) is the last of Tolstoys major novels. It tells the story of a noblemans attempt to redeem t
The Cossacks
Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
To read Tolstoys early sketch, The Raid, and his first novel, The Cossacks, is to enter the workshop of a great
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Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Mikhail Dostoyevsky
Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a
Lady With Lapdog and Other Stories
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov may be likened to his contemporaries, the pointilliste painters. Piece by piece, episod
The Island of Doctor Moreau
H G Wells
Ranked among the classic novels of the English language and the inspiration for several unforgettable movies, t
War and Peace
Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
In Russias struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. Greater than a historical c
Anna Karenin
Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Acclaimed by many as the worlds greatest novel, Anna Karenin provides a vast panorama of contemporary life in R
A Harlot High and Low
Honoré de Balzac
Finance, fashionable society, and the intrigues of the underworld and the police system form the heart of this
Cousin Bette
Poor Relations Part 1
Honoré de Balzac
Poor, plain spinster Bette is compelled to survive on the condescending patronage of her socially superior rela
Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol
Dead Souls is eloquent on some occasions, lyrical on others, and pious and reverent elsewhere. Nicolai Gogol wa
The Squabble
Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Gogols short story is a sublime work of tragi-comedy. In it, he brilliantly ridicules the Ukrainian pas
The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Gogol
More than a century and a half later, Nikolai Gogols stories continue to delight readers the world over. Now a
collection, fantasy, folktales, russia, russian, satire, shortstories
A Hero of Our Time
Mikhail Lermontov
In its adventurous happenings, its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues, A Hero of Our Time looks backward t
A Journal of the Plague Year
Daniel Defoe
In 1665, the Great Plague swept through London, claiming nearly 100,000 lives. In A Journal of the Plague Year,
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamasov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series
The Last Days of Pompeii
Edward Bulwer Lytton
The Last Days of Pompeii was one of the most popular English historical novels of the nineteenth century. It te
Oblomov
Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov
The novel evolved and expanded from an 1849 short story or sketch entitled Oblomovs Dream. The novel focuses on
The Wild Ass’s Skin
Honoré de Balzac
The Wild Ass’s Skin is Honoré de Balzacs 1831 novel that tells the story of a young man, Raphaél de Valentin,
The Captain’s Daughter and Other Stories
Alexander Pushkin
Pushkins version of the historical novel in the style of Walter Scott, this final prose work also reflects his
collection, historical, romantic, russia, russian, shortstories
The Possessed Vol 2
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Devils, or The Posessed, is the most controversial of Dostoyevskys masterpieces. A political drama, it has
Selected Stories
Anton Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (Russian: Антон Павлович Чехов, IPA: 29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904
Droll Stories
Honoré de Balzac
Les Cent Contes drolatiques (French, The Hundred Facetious Tales) — known as Droll Stories — is a collectio
The Black Arab and Other Stories
Mikhail Prishvin
Mikhail Prishvin was born in the family mansion of Krutschevo in Oryol Governorate (now in Stanovlyansky Distri
The Best Stories of Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant
Modern Library volume 98 edited by Saxe Commins.
Nicholas Nickleby
Charles Dickens
When Nicholas Nickleby is left penniless after his fathers death, he appeals to his wealthy uncle to help him f
Short Stories of De Maupassant
Guy De Maupassant
Maupassant was a protégé of Gustave Flaubert and his stories are characterized by economy of style and effici
Don Quixote
Miguel De Cervantes
Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances that he determines to become a knight-errant
Pierre and Jean
Guy de Maupassant
The fraternal love that Pierre Roland feels for his younger brother Jean has always been tinged with jealousy.
Chicot The Jester
The Last Valois #2
Alexandre Dumas
Intrigue and adventure in the dangerous days of the sixteenth century.
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable Joh
The Way of All Flesh
Samuel Butler
Written between 1873 and 1884 and published posthumously in 1903, The Way of All Flesh is regarded by some as t
Candide
Voltaire
Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desper
Droll Stories Volume 1
Honoré de Balzac
Balzac’s Droll Stories are one of the greatest achievements of the genius of comedy. For more than a century th
A Womans Life
Guy de Maupassant
The most popular and perhaps the greatest of Maupassants full-length novels, A Womans Life is the story of the
Faust / Part One
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Goethes activities as poet, statesman, theatre director, critic, and scientist show him to be a genius of amazi
Metamorphosis and The Trial
Franz Kafka
On the morning of his thirtieth birthday Josef K. is arrested for an unspecified crime. One morning Gregor Sams
Sanin
A Novel
Mikhail Petrovich Artsybashev
It evoked almost unprecedented discussions, like those at the time of Turgenevs Fathers and Sons. Some praised
The Bankrupt
Honoré de Balzac
Honore de Balzac lived most of his life one step from his creditors; his house in Paris even had a special exit
The Red and the Black
Stendhal
Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins. Soon realizing that
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is best known for War and Peace and Anna Karenina, commonly regarded as amongst t
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Bleak House
Charles Dickens
Bleak House opens in the twilight of foggy London, where fog grips the city most densely in the Court of Chance
Fathers and Sons
Ivan Turgenev
Bazarov’s gifted, impatient, and caustic young man has journeyed from school to the home of his friend Arkady K
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of
Home of the Gentry
Ivan Turgenev
Home of the Gentry is a novel by Ivan Turgenev published in the January 1859 issue of Sovremennik. It was enthu
Nana
Émile Zola
Nana opens in 1867, the year of the World Fair, when Paris, thronged by a cosmopolitan elite, was the perfect t
The Idiot
Fyodor Mikhail Dostoyevsky
Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself en
The Odyssey
Homer
Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundere