 The Gambler
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Psychologically probing novel concerns the gambling episodes, tangled love affairs and complicated lives of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young gambler; Polina Alexandrovna, the woman he loves; a pair of French adventurers and other characters.
all books in Fiction
|  |
| |  The Double
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Most significant of the Russian novelist's early stories (1846) offers straight-faced treatment of hallucinatory theme. Golyadkin senior is ruthlessly persecuted by Golyadkin junior, his double in almost every respect.
all books in Fiction
| |
|
 Dead Souls
by Nikolai Gogol
A stranger arrives in a Russian backwater community with a bizarre proposition for the local landowners: cash for their "dead souls," the serfs who have died in their service. A comic masterpiece.
all books in Fiction
| |
| |  Notes from the Underground
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Darkly fascinating short novel depicts the struggles of a doubting, supremely alienated protagonist in a world of relative values. Embraces moral, religious, political, and social themes. Authoritative Constance Garnett translation. New introduction.
all books in Fiction
| |
|
 The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Garnett
Three brothers, involved in the brutal murder of their despicable father, find their lives irrevocably altered as they are driven by intense, uncontrollable emotions of rage and revenge.
all books in Fiction
| |
| |  The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short Stories
by Leo Tolstoy
Three great stories offer profound insights into human behavior and motivation. Title story plus "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" and "The Death of Ivan Ilych." Explanatory footnotes.
all books in Fiction
| |
|
 The Trial
by Franz Kafka, David Wyllie
From its gripping first sentence onward, this novel exemplifies the term "Kafkaesque." Its darkly humorous narrative recounts a bank clerk's entrapment in a bureaucratic maze, based on an undisclosed charge.
all books in Fiction
| |
| |  The Eternal Husband
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Garnett
A rich and idle man confronts his dead mistress's husband in this psychological novel of duality. Powerful and accessible, it offers a captivating and revealing exploration of love, guilt, and hatred.
all books in Fiction
| |
|
 The House of the Dead
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The harrowing, fictional memoir of a condemned murderer, this haunting and remarkable novel recounts, in part, the years Dostoyevsky spent in prison for suspected subversive activities.
all books in Fiction
| |
|
