Daniil Kharms is one of the most extraordinary and paradoxical Russian writers of the 20th century. This collection includes prose of 1929-1939, sketches, texts of autobiographical and quasi-autobiographical nature, articles and treatises, letters.

The edition includes the best works of the talented Ukrainian writer, brilliant novelist, follower of I. Franko, master of words, Mykhailo Kotsyubynskyi (1864-1913) - ‘Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors’, ‘Horses Are Not Guilty’, ‘Intermezzo’, ‘Laughter’ and others. Small in volume, but psychologically tense works, in which the writer depicted vivid and true images, belong to the highest...

By turns lyrical and philosophical, witty and baffling, A School for Fools confounds all expectations of the novel. Here we find not one reliable narrator but two ‘unreliable’ narrators: the young man who is a student at the ‘school for fools’ and his double. What begins as a reverie (with frequent interruptions) comes to seem a sort of fairy-tale quest not for gold or marriage but for...

Als »ein Volksstück und die Parodie dazu« bezeichnete Alfred Polgar Ödön von Horváths Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald. Mit dem Kleist-Preis ausgezeichnet, wurde Horváths Volksstück 1931 an Max Reinhardts Deutschem Theater in Berlin unter der Regie von Heinz Hilpert uraufgeführt, »das bitterste, das bitterböseste Stück neuer Literatur«, wie Kurt Pinthus schrieb. In der New York Times war zu...

Set against the doomed splendour of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, The Radetzky March tells the story of the celebrated Trotta family, tracing their rise and fall over three generations. Theirs is a sweeping history of heroism and duty, desire and compromise, tragedy and heartbreak, a story that lasts until the darkening eve of World War One, when all is set to fall apart. Rich, epic and...

Zweig's early story was written in 1913 and was published in the same year, but is published here in the 1925 bookprint version revised by its author, which Zweig has 'shortened by numerous passages that were obviously too 'expressive' from his later point of view,' according to the author Editor Michael Scheffel. Zweig masterfully captured the oppressive atmosphere of the story, in which the...

The Stranger is the debut work of a young writer, a kind of creative manifesto. The concept of absolute freedom is the main postulate of this manifesto. The hero of this story is on trial for a murder he committed for the most stupid of all possible reasons. And this is the truth that the hero is not afraid to throw in the face of his judges, go against everything, forget about all conventions...

Vladimir Nabokov called Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina 'one of the greatest love stories in world literature'. Set in imperial Russia, Anna Karenina is a rich and complex meditation on passionate love and disastrous infidelity.

A lonely old man and a tender puppy met and became friends. 'Warm friendship and devotion became happiness, because everyone understood everyone and each did not demand more from the other than what he could give.' But grief happened - and the dog was left alone, though among people, and went in search of a beloved owner.