Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859

Author	Fyodor Dostoyevsky
ISBN	0486434095

Accused of political subversion as a young man, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was sentenced to four years of hard labor at a Siberian prison camp — a horrifying experience from which he developed this astounding semi-autobiographical memoir of a man condemned to ten years of servitude for murdering his wife.
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Author	Xun Lu
ISBN	0824813170

This collection of short stories by Lu Xun, commonly considered one of the greatest writers in 20th-century China and often referred to as the father of modern Chinese literature, includes the celebrated short story, "A Madman's Diary". This short story is considered to be one of the first and most...

Author	Fyodor Dostoyevsky
ISBN	0898751047

The Insulted & Injured, published soon after Dostoevsky's political imprisonment, clearly foreshadows his later preoccupation with unconscious psychological drives & their external effects on the lives of his characters. Where his later works carry these drives to inevitably dramatic...

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Ryszard Kapuściński

Busz po polsku" jest zbiorem moich krajowych reportaży, z końca lat 50., kiedy pisałem w tygodniku "Polityka". Byłem młodym, początkującym reporterem tuż po studiach i fascynował mnie reportaż - wyprawy w teren, poznawanie nowego świata, jakim była dla mnie polska prowincja z wszystkimi...

Author	Elizabeth Gaskell
ISBN	0141397373

This is exactly why I bought this collection: to find authors I may not have normally come across. I love Gaskell’s style of writing, and I will most certainly be reading more of her work in the future. These two stories are everything I adore in Victorian literature; they are gothic and fear evoking,...

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Alex Erickson

With a veterinarian dad and a pet-rescuing mom, helping animals is a family business for the Dentons—but after a shocking murder, it’s Liz Denton’s son who might end up in a cage . . .

Sadly, Timothy Fuller is too old and infirm to continue caring for his beloved Pomeranian, Stewie, who...