The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories

Similar books (20)

• 

  The Double and The Gambler

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Idiot

  Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women—the notorious kept woman Nastasya and …

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Notes from Underground

  Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of t…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Notes from Underground & The Double

  ‘It is best to do nothing! The best thing is conscious inertia! So long live the underground!’Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dosto…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Brothers Karamazov

  The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karam…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Crime and Punishment

  Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napole…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  A Double Life

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  A Hero of Our Time

  In its adventurous happenings, its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues, A Hero of Our Time looks backward to the tales of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, so beloved by Russian society in the 1820…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

  When Pushkin first read some of the stories in this collection, he declared himself "amazed."  "Here is real gaiety," he wrote, "honest, unconstrained, without mincing, without primness. And in places…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Trial

  Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must de…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  White Nights

  White Nights is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky that was published in 1848. Set in St. Petersburg, it is the story of a young man fighting his inner restlessness. A light and tender narrative, it d…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Fathers and Sons

  Bazarov—a gifted, impatient, and caustic young man—has journeyed from school to the home of his friend Arkady Kirsanov. But soon Bazarov’s outspoken rejection of authority and social conventions touch…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Demons

  Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0679734511. (ISBN13: 9780679734512)
  
  Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horrified Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a "novel-pamp…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Dead Souls

  Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowners to make each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the ce…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Fifty-Two Stories

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  La tragédie du Roi Christophe

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  A Preface to Paradise Lost

  Examines the style, content, structure, and themes of Milton's classic within the context of Western literary tradition

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  I racconti di Pietroburgo

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  A Nervous Breakdown (Penguin Little Black Classics, #111)

  'I did have hallucinations, but did they harm anyone? Who did they harm, that's what I'd like to know!'

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Stranger

  Published in 1942 by French author Albert Camus, The Stranger has long been considered a classic of twentieth-century literature. Le Monde ranks it as number one on its "100 Books of the Century" list…

  Buy this book on Amazon