A Gentle Creature and Other Stories
8 best books like A Gentle Creature and Other Stories (Fyodor Dostoyevsky): A Season in Hell, The Secret Agent, The Kreutzer Sonata, First Love, The Nose, Petersburg, The Lady with the Little Dog, The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe
| Author | Arthur Rimbaud |
| ISBN | 0821224581 |
I'm an organized person. Psychotically organized. Except when it comes to books. I try to plan my readings, I try to finish one book in order to begin a new one, but it's all in vain. I read what I want to read, whenever I have the need of reading it. So, with four books on my currently-reading shelf, today I...
| Author | Joseph Conrad |
| ISBN | 0192801694 |
Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be "a simple...
| Author | Leo Tolstoy |
| ISBN | 0812968239 |
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 Kreutzer Sonata illuminates Tolstoy’s then-feverish Christian ideals, his conflicts with lust...
| Author | Ivan Turgenev |
| ISBN | 0974607894 |
This vivid, sensitive tale of adolescent love follows a 16-year-old boy who falls in love with a beautiful, older woman and experiences a whirlwind of changing emotions, from exaltation and jealousy to despair and devotion.
This beautifully packaged series of classic novellas includes...
| Author | Nikolai Gogol |
| ISBN | 0688104649 |
Gogol’s “The Nose” (1835), is an early triumph of surrealism, daring and delightful in the way it jars and disjoins one realitiy from another, but it is also a vivid realistic depiction of the sights and sounds of early 19th century St. Petersburg (including the essential bridges, buildings...
| Author | Andrei Bely |
| ISBN | 0253202191 |
Taking place over a short, turbulent period in 1905, 'Petersburg' is a colourful evocation of Russia's capital—a kaleidoscope of images and impressions, an eastern window on the west, a symbol of the ambiguities and paradoxes of the Russian character. History, culture, and politics are blended...
The Lady with the Little Dog
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Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) may have suffered an untimely death, but he squeezed the most out of his 44 years of life. Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be one of the greatest writers in history, particularly...
The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe
| Author | Edgar Allan Poe |
| ISBN | 1453744517 |
At last, America’s Master Storyteller joins the ranks of Delphi Classics’ scholarly collections. This is the COMPLETE WORKS of the great literary giant Edgar Allan Poe. Why buy any other Kindle version, which will have texts missing? This is the only eBook available with every tale - even the very...
