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A young man declared insane by the machinations of his own mother. This book sows the seeds of stream of consciousness writing and of all that was to come in the best of twentieth-century fiction. It...

The novella opens in Paris on the Rue Saint-Denis with a description of a very old house. Opposite the house, a young man stands in the pouring rain. He stares at the house, waiting for a glimpse of...

Styled as a folk tale, it tells a story of a left-handed arms craftsman from Tula (traditionally a center of the Russian armaments industry) who outperformed his English colleagues by providing a...

A loose and decidely Russian adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear, set in the countryside, the story concerns the disrespectful treatment the protagonist, Kharlov, receives from his...

One sings here of the soul of a river, and this soul never dies. C.F.Ramuz Nearly seventy years after the death of Charles Ferdinand Ramuz (1878-1947), it is safe to say that the reputation of...

This classic novel of self-discovery has inspired generations of seekers. With parallels to the enlightenment of the Buddha, Hesse's Siddhartha is the story of a young Brahmin's quest for the...

The Dead is one of the twentieth century's most beautiful pieces of short literature. The story centres on Gabriel Conroy, a teacher and part-time book reviewer, and explores the relationships he has...

Turgenev's iconic tale of love and mortality, set in 19th century Tsarist Russia, is a skillfully written sad story of heartache and unrequited love. It is also is one of literature's finest...

In Journey to the East "H.H." becomes a member of "The League," a timeless religious sect whose members include famous fictional and real characters, such as Plato, Mozart, Pythagoras, Paul Klee, Don...

Andreyev depicts the fates of five failed leftist revolutionaries and two common peasants who have received death sentences. The condemned await execution by hanging. In prison, each of the prisoners...