Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is a member of Russia's dying aristocracy - a man so lazy that he has given up...
The Cossacks
Written in 1862, the year before Tolstoy embarked upon War and Peace, The Cossacks describes a...
Femme Fatale
Four sparkling nineteenth century tales of Parisian high society and rural life, from the father...
We
"The best single work of science fiction yet written" -- Ursula K. Le Guin A seminal work of...
Spring Torrents
Drawn suddenly into an impossible and quite unpractical romantic attachment, the weak-willed...
War And Peace Vol. 2
Russian family life portrayed during and after the Napoleonic War. This second volume describes...
Remembrance of Things Past : 1
"For a long time I used to go to bed early." The first two volumes in Proust's seven volume...
Anna Karenin
With Anna Karenin, Tolstoy's most perfect work, the psychological novel of the nineteenth century...
Ward No. 6 and Other Stories
Ward No. 6 and Other Stories (1892-1895) collects stories which show Anton Chekhov beginning to...
The Hotel Majestic
When the strangled body of Mrs Clark, the wife of a wealthy American industrialist, is found in...