First Love

by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Преступление и наказание

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

В начале июля, в чрезвычайно жаркое время, под вечер, один молодой человек вышел из своей каморки, которую нанимал от жи...

The House of the Dead

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

IN the midst of the steppes, of the mountains, of the impenetrable forests of the desert regions of Siberia, one meets f...

War and Peace

by Лев Толстой

»Nun was sagen Sie dazu, mein Fürst, Genua und Lucca sind nunmehr Erbgüter der Familie Bonaparte!

Отцы и дети

by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Идиот

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

AT around nine in the morning towards the end of a thawing November, the Warsaw train was approaching Petersburg at full...

Братья Карамазовы

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

ALEKSEI FYODOROVICH KARAMOZOV was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, a landowner of our district, extremely we...

Анна Каренина

by Лев Толстой

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Игрокъ

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

At last I was back after my two weeks' absence.

Белые ночи

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

C'était une nuit de conte, ami lecteur, une de ces nuits qui ne peuvent guère survenir que dans notre jeunesse.

Бѣсы

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

IN setting out to describe the recent and very strange events that occurred in our hitherto completely undistinguished l...

Записки изъ подполья

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

Part I bears the subtitle 'The Underground', to which is appended an explanatory note from Dostoevsky himself: Both the ...

Voskresenīe

by Лев Толстой

THOUGH hundreds of thousands had done their very best to disfigure the small piece of land on which they were crowded to...

Архипелаг ГУЛАГ

by Александр Исаевич Солженицын

"Only those can understand us who ate from the same bowl with us"

Бедные люди

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

MY DEAREST BARBARA ALEXIEVNA, - How happy I was last night - how immeasurably, how impossibly happy!

Три сестры

by Антон Павлович Чехов

I knew this book needed an introduction when someone asked me, with a sigh, why make yet another English translation of ...

Evgeniĭ Onegin

by Александр Сергеевич Пушкин

The following commentary consists of a series of notes to the whole of EO, including rejected stanzas and variants prese...

Детство; Отрочество; Юность

by Лев Толстой

ON the 12th of August, 18-, the third day after my birthday when I had attained the age of ten, and had received such wo...

Oblomov

by Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov

The Endless Steppe

by Esther Rudomin Hautzig

The morning it happened-the end of my lovely world-I did not water the lilac bush outside my father's study.