The author was a famous Soviet/Russian writer, literary critic, translator, scholar and screenwriter. He was an authority on Pushkin and an important member of the Russian Formalist school. The first novel in this book is a satirical tale of an officer, created by a bureaucratic error, who (despite not actually existing) enjoys a career full of valor and awards and is granted an estate with...

The last, most voluminous and one of the most famous novels by F. M. Dostoevsky addresses the reader to timeless moral and philosophical questions about sin, retribution, compassion and mercy.

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...

This book contains the best sayings of Mark Twain: about money and work, about age and habits, about God and the Bible, about truth and lies - and about everything else. Many of them are published for the first time.

‘Intruder in the Dust’ is a compelling novel penned by renowned American author William Faulkner. Set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, the story follows the gripping tale of Lucas Beauchamp, a proud and defiant African-American man accused of murder. The narrative unfolds through the eyes of Charles Mallison, one of the young white boy, and his uncle Gavin Stevens, a lawyer....

In Soviet Russia in 1927, a former member of nobility, Ippolit Vorobyaninov, works as a desk clerk, until his mother-in-law reveals on her deathbed that her family jewelry had been hidden from the Bolsheviks in one of the twelve chairs from the family’s dining room set. Those chairs, along with all other personal property, had been expropriated by the government after the Russian Revolution. He...