The Collected Stories

10 best books like The Collected Stories (Alexander Pushkin): Notes from Underground, A Hero of Our Time, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova, The White Guard, Oblomov, The Complete Short Novels, First Love and Other Stories, Great Short Works, The Overcoat and Other Tales of Good and Evil, Great Short Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky

Notes from Underground

Author

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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 the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who...

A Hero of Our Time

Author

Mikhail Lermontov

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 1820s and '30s. In the character of its protagonist, Pechorin, the archetypal Russian antihero, Lermontov's...

The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

Author	Anna Akhmatova
ISBN	0939010275

Initially published in 1990, when the New York Times Book Review named it one of fourteen "Best Books of the Year," Judith Hemschemeyer's translation of The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova is the definitive edition, and has sold over 13,000 copies, making it one of the most successful poetry titles...

The White Guard

Author	Mikhail Bulgakov
ISBN	0099490668

Although less famous than Mikhail Bulgakov's comic hit, The Master and Margarita, The White Guard is still an engrossing book, though completely different in tone. It is set in Kiev during the Russian revolution and tells the story of the Turbin family and the war's effect on the middle-classes (not...

Oblomov

Author	Ivan Goncharov
ISBN	1933480092

The novel evolved and expanded from an 1849 short story or sketch entitled "Oblomov's Dream". The novel focuses on the midlife crisis of the main character, Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, an upper middle class son of a member of Russia's nineteenth century landed gentry. Oblomov's distinguishing characteristic...

The Complete Short Novels

Author

Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels. Here, brought together in one volume for the first time, in a masterly new translation by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.

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First Love and Other Stories

Author	Ivan Turgenev
ISBN	0192836897

This collection brings together six of Turgenev's best-known `long' short stories, in which he turns his skills of psychological observation and black comedy to subjects as diverse as the tyranny of serfdom, love, and revenge on the Russian steppes. These stories all display the elegance and clarity...

Great Short Works

Author	Leo Tolstoy
ISBN	0060586974

Of all Russian writers Leo Tolstoy is probably the best known to the Western world, largely because of War and Peace, his epic in prose, and Anna Karenina, one of the most splendid novels in any language. But during his long lifetime Tolstoy also wrote enough shorter works to fill many volumes. Here reprinted...

The Overcoat and Other Tales of Good and Evil

Author	Nikolai Gogol
ISBN	0393003043

The compassion, simplicity, and gentle humor with which he treats the poignant quest of a hapless civil servant for the return of his stolen overcoat—and the fantastic yet realistic manner in which he takes revenge on his nemesis, the Very Important Person—mark "The Overcoat" as one of the greatest...

Great Short Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky

Author	Fyodor Dostoyevsky
ISBN	0060726466

The short works of Dostoevsky exist in the very large shadow of his astonishing longer novels, but they too are among literature's most revered works. The Gambler chronicles Dostoevsky's own addiction, which he eventually overcame. Many have argued that Notes from the Underground contains several...

Aşkımız Eski Bir Roman

Author	Ahmet Ümit
ISBN	9750845552

İstanbul’da bir kanun adamı, sokaklarda bir suç bilgesi. Başkomser Nevzat, karmaşık cinayetleri çözerken insan ruhunun derinliklerinde gezinmeye devam ediyor...

Edebiyat bazen çok tehlikeli olabilir. Anna Karenina, Madam Bovary, Esmeralda ve daha birçok kadın roman...