This collection includes stories by I. S. Turgenev from 1854–1860: ‘The Calm,’ ‘Correspondence,’ ‘Yakov Pasynkov,’ ‘Faust,’ ‘Asya,’ and ‘First Love.’ The book's content is determined not only by chronological order but also by the internal connection between these works—the theme of love. Turgenev temporarily leaves man alone with the profound, the primordial, and the eternal, revealing within...

The wild success that fell upon Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov after the publication of The Twelve Chairs (1928) prompted the co-authors to resurrect their hero, the cheerful and charming swindler Ostap Bender, and set about writing The Golden Calf (1931). This time, the great schemer is developing an operation to take money from the underground millionaire Koreiko. Sparkling humor, unexpected...

Miniature edition. White paper, large, legible font. Flipbook format, great for reading in the subway, on the bus, in a plane.

When brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov is murdered, the lives of his sons are changed irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide; Ivan, the intellectual, whose mental tortures drive him to breakdown; the spiritual Alyosha, who tries to heal the family's rifts; and the shadowy figure of their bastard half-brother...

The novel 'Doctor Zhivago' is one of the outstanding readings of Russian literature, which for many years remained closed to a wide circle of circles in the country who know about it only from scandalous and unscrupulous party criticism. The insecurity and immortality of a creative person, an intellectual and the turning points in the life of our people are the central theme of the final book...

Oscar Wilde presents a unique twist on the age-old doppelganger motif in his only novel, ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray.’ The story revolves around Dorian Gray, a youthful and affluent individual who possesses a portrait that ages in his place. Unrestrained, Dorian indulges in various pleasures and debaucheries, eventually descending into the realm of murder. Despite his immoral actions, Dorian...

War and Peace is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. It is regarded as one of the central works of world literature. War and Peace is considered Tolstoy's finest literary achievement. The novel charts the history of the French invasion of Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, through the stories of five Russian aristocratic families. The novel was first...

The events in the novel 'Serpent's Bite' take place in the Far-East region of Russia. The corpse of a man with a cut throat is found on a staircase of an apartment building. A series of mysterious murders follow one after another. The investigation is assigned to a young police detective Belov, who finds himself in complex and dangerous situations throughout the novel. Due to his genuine...