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The Complete Novels

Franz Kafka

Classic Fiction

Kafkas characters are victims of forces beyond their control, estranged and rootless citizens deceived by autho

bohemian, collection, existentialism, realism

The Vintage Turgenev

Volume 1

Ivan Turgenev

Classic Fiction

Turgenev has merits denied to Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky that give him a secure place among the worlds supreme nov

collection, realism, russia

The Peloponnesian War

Thucydides

History

The Peloponnesian War (431-404 B.C.E.) was the greatest disturbance in Greek history to that time. The bitter r

ancient, athens, classical, greek, realism, sparta

A Month In The Country

A Comedy in Five Acts

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev

Classic Fiction

One week before her thirtieth birthday, the simple life of dutiful wife and mother Natalya is upended when the

humanism, realism, russia

History of the Thirteen

Honoré De Balzac

Classic Fiction

This trilogy of storie’s Ferragus: Chief of the Companions of Duty, The Duchesse De Langeais, and The Girl with

french, humancomedy, realism

Resurrection

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Classic Fiction

Resurrection (1899) is the last of Tolstoys major novels. It tells the story of a noblemans attempt to redeem t

christiananarchist, realism, russia

The Cossacks

Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Classic Fiction

To read Tolstoys early sketch, The Raid, and his first novel, The Cossacks, is to enter the workshop of a great

christiananarchist, collection, realism, russia, russian, war

War and Peace

Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Classic Fiction

In Russias struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. Greater than a historical c

christiananarchist, napoleon, realism, russia, russian, war

Anna Karenin

Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Classic Fiction

Acclaimed by many as the worlds greatest novel, Anna Karenin provides a vast panorama of contemporary life in R

agrarian, christiananarchist, realism, russia, russian

A Harlot High and Low

Honoré de Balzac

Classic Fiction

Finance, fashionable society, and the intrigues of the underworld and the police system form the heart of this

french, humancomedy, paris, realism

The Wild Ass’s Skin

Honoré de Balzac

Classic Fiction

The Wild Ass’s Skin is Honoré de Balzacs 1831 novel that tells the story of a young man, Raphaél de Valentin,

french, human comedy, realism

Metamorphosis and The Trial

Franz Kafka

Classic Fiction

On the morning of his thirtieth birthday Josef K. is arrested for an unspecified crime. One morning Gregor Sams

anxiety, fantasy, kafka, realism

The Problems of Philosophy

Bertrand Russell

Philosophy

A lively and still one of the best introductions to philosophy, this book pays off both a closer reading for st

introduction, realism

The Diaries of Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka

Non-fiction

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce an

anxiety, literature, realism

The Red and the Black

Stendhal

Classic Fiction

Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins. Soon realizing that

french, realism

Fathers and Sons

Ivan Turgenev

Classic Fiction

Bazarov’s gifted, impatient, and caustic young man has journeyed from school to the home of his friend Arkady K

realism, russia, russian

Home of the Gentry

Ivan Turgenev

Classic Fiction

Home of the Gentry is a novel by Ivan Turgenev published in the January 1859 issue of Sovremennik. It was enthu

realism, russia, russian