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The Kreutzer Sonata is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, named after Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata. The novella was published in 1889 and promptly censored by the Russian authorities. The work is an argument...

The Golden Calf is a famous satirical novel by Soviet authors Il'f and Petrov, released in 1931. Its main character Ostap Bender, also appeared in a previous novel by the authors called The Twelve...

H. C. Andersen's stories- called eventyr, or "fairy -tales"- express themes that transcend age and nationality. They have been translated into more than 125 languages and have become culturally...

The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work ascribed to Homer. The poem is fundamental to the modern Western...

The Petty Demon was written by Fyodor Sologub over a period of ten years from 1892-1902. The novel depicts the soul of sinister teacher sadistic Ardalyon Borisovich Peredonov, lost in a dull...

The Pillow Book is a book of observations and musings recorded by Sei Shonagon during her time as court lady to Empress Consort Teishi during the 990s and early 1000s in Heian Japan. The book was...

Titus Maccius Plautus (254-184 BC), commonly known as "Plautus", was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are the earliest surviving intact works in Latin literature. The language...

Publius Terentius Afer (195/185-159 BC), better known in English as Terence, was a playwright of the Roman Republic of North African descent. His comedies were performed for the first time around...

The Precipice is the third novel by Ivan Goncharov, first published in January-May 1869 issues of Vestnik Evropy magazine. The novel, conceived in 1849, took twenty years to be completed and has been...

The Recognition of Shakuntala is a well-known Sanskrit play by Kalidasa. It is considered to be the best of Kalidasa's works. Its date is uncertain, but Kalidasa is often placed in the period between...

The Seagull is a play by Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov, written in 1895 and first produced in 1896. The Seagull is generally considered to be the first of his four major plays. It dramatises the...

The Seagull is a play by Anton Chekhov, written in 1895 and first produced in 1896. The Seagull is generally considered to be the first of his four major plays. It dramatises the romantic and...

Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev was a Russian playwright, novelist and short-story writer. He is one of the most talented and prolific representatives of the Silver Age period in Russian history...

Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904) was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. While he wrote several novella-length...

The State and Revolution (1917), by Vladimir Lenin, describes the role of the State in society, the necessity of proletarian revolution, and the theoretic inadequacies of social democracy in...

The State and Revolution (1917), by Vladimir Lenin, describes the role of the State in society, the necessity of proletarian revolution, and the theoretic inadequacies of social democracy in...

The Tale of Kieu is an epic poem in Vietnamese written by Nguyen Du (1766-1820), and is widely regarded as the most significant work of Vietnamese literature. In 3,254 verses, written in luc bat...

The Tattooer is the first publish work by Junichiro Tanizaki, one of the major authors in the modern Japanese tradition. In the story, a tattoo artist inscribes a giant spider on the body of a...

The Travels of Lao Can is a novel by Liu E (1857-1909). Thinly disguising his own views in those of the physician hero, Liu describes the rise of the Boxers in the countryside, the decay of the...

The Twelve Chairs is a classic satirical novel by the Odessan Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov, released in 1928. Its main character Ostap Bender, who knows "four hundred comparatively honest ways of...

Set in Ukraine, beginning in late 1918, The White Guard concerns the fate of the Turbin family as the various armies of the Russian Civil War - the Whites, the Reds, the Imperial German Army, and...

The Zhuangzi is an ancient Chinese work from the late Warring States period (3rd century BC) which contains stories and anecdotes that exemplify the carefree nature of the ideal Daoist sage. Though...

Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal (1866-1907) was a Russian prose writer and dramatist. Zinovieva-Annibal was associated with the Silver Age of Russian Poetry. She hosted a literary salon, 'The Tower', with...

Three Sisters is a play by the Russian author and playwright Anton Chekhov, perhaps partially inspired by the situation of the three Bront? sisters. It was written in 1900 and first performed in 1901...

Tine er en dansk roman fra 1889 af Herman Bang. Bogens handling finder sted pa Als i tiden, efter stormen pa Dybbol i 1864. Det lokale samfund aendrer sig drastisk fra det normale, idylliske, danske...

Told on the Pagoda: Tales of Burmah is a collection of some of the most famous Burmese folktales. Each of the stories offers an insight to the indigenous traditions of this complex and fascinating...

Torrents of Spring, also known as Spring Torrents, is a novel written by Ivan Turgenev during 1870 and 1871 when he was in his fifties. The story centers around a young Russian landowner named...

Tov?rna na absolutno is a science fiction novel written by Czech author Karel Capek in 1922. The first sentence opens the story on New Year's Day 1943, and describes the fundamental transformations...

This book arose from the author's frustration with the lack of resources for intermediate students of the Thai language. The main body of this book is a list of the most common Thai words with...

Rainis was the pseudonym of Janis Plieksans (1865 - 1929), a Latvian poet, playwright, translator, and politician. Rainis' works include classic plays and a highly regarded translation of Goethe's...