When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partner, his jealousy consumes him and drives him to murder. Controversial upon publication in 1890, The Kr…
Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-b…
While his literary reputation rests mainly on such celebrated novels as Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and The Idiot, Dostoyevsky also wrote much superb short fiction. The Double is one…
Great Expectations charts the progress of Pip from childhood through often painful experiences to adulthood, as he moves from the Kent marshes to busy, commercial London, encountering a variety of ext…
In his most famous and controversial book, Utopia, Thomas More imagines a perfect island nation where thousands live in peace and harmony, men and women are both educated, and all property is communal…
Aniversarea a douazeci de ani ii ofera lui Shahab prilejul unei introspectii asupra copilariei sale, marcata de conflictele provocate in familie de refuzul lui de a vorbi si de relatia tensionata cu p…
Madame Bovary is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The character lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life. When the…
Primul roman al ciclului Comăneștenilor este considerat aproape în unanimitate de criticii literari drept cel mai valoros, prin echilibrul de realism și de idealism, prin poezia pământului și a vechii…
Professor Esolen's translation of Dante's Inferno is the best one I have seen, for two reasons. His decision to use unrhymed blank verse allows him to come nearly as close to the meaning of the origin…
"Te autorizez sa subliniezi cartile pe care le vei citi", spune personajul principal al acestei povesti. Este numai una din lectiile pe care le primeste un adolescent, care a nimerit la timp in cea ma…
