This collection includes two of Dostoevsky's early works - 'Poor People' and 'The Double', which marked the birth of the future great novelist. 'Poor People' is the writer's debut novel.' The touching love story of the petty official Makar Devushkin and Varenka Dobroselova reveals the eternal theme of the 'little man'. Despite the inner beauty and nobility of the soul, they are not able to...

The poem 'Odyssey', created by the genius of the legendary epic poet of Ancient Greece Homer, is one of the greatest works of world literature, a creation full of full-blooded life, bright fantasy and poetic brilliance. The dangerous adventures of the cunning and long-suffering Odyssey (he, passionately striving to go home to Ithaca, will have to fight with Poseidon, visit the country of cruel...

Martin Eden, who is semi-autobiographical, is Jack London's most significant and unique creation to date. The story of Martin Eden, a poor fisherman who pursues his goals of higher education and literary success passionately and obsessively, is set in San Francisco. Martin Eden was written as an attack on individuality and a critique of ambition by London, who was dissatisfied with the benefits...

Like many of Dostoyevsky's stories, "White Nights" is told in first person by a nameless narrator; the narrator is living in Saint Petersburg and suffers from loneliness. He gets to know and falls in love with a young woman, but the love remains unrequited as the woman misses her lover with whom she is finally reunited.

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley about the young student of science Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque but sentient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty.

»Buddenbrooks« erschien 1901 und war Thomas Manns erster Roman. Bis heute zählt die bewegende Geschichte der Kaufmannsfamilie aus Lübeck zu den meistgelesenen Klassikern der deutschen Literatur.

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 retains his youth and beauty while the portrait progressively reflects his moral decay and malevolence. Similar to...

Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order–all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls.

Heiligabend im Haus des Medizinalrats Stahlbaum: Auf dem reichen Gabentisch findet sich auch ein Nussknacker, den die kleine Marie sofort ins Herz schließt. Um Mitternacht erwachen die neuen Spielzeuge zum Leben …

Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own. When they land jobs on a ranch in the Salinas Valley, the fulfillment of their dream seems to be within their grasp. But even George cannot guard Lennie from the provocations, nor predict...