The Death of Ivan Ilyich/Master and Man
10 best books like The Death of Ivan Ilyich/Master and Man (Leo Tolstoy): Pilu of the Woods, The House of the Dead, More Than Human, Taras Bulba, First Love and Other Stories, A Parisian Affair and Other Stories, Red Cavalry and Other Stories, Nikolai Gogol, Soul, The Steppe and Other Stories, 1887-91
| Author | Mai K. Nguyen |
| ISBN | 1620105632 |
A heartwarming story of friendship, loss, and finding your way home from debut author/illustrator Mai K. Nguyen!
Willow loves the woods near her house. They’re calm and quiet, so different from her own turbulent emotions, which she keeps locked away. When her emotions get the better of...
| 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.
As...
| Author | Theodore Sturgeon |
| ISBN | 0375703713 |
There's Lone, the simpleton who can hear other people's thoughts and make a man blow his brains out just by looking at him. There's Janie, who moves things without touching them, and there are the teleporting twins, who can travel ten feet or ten miles. There's Baby, who invented an antigravity engine...
| Author | Nikolai Gogol |
| ISBN | 1406946168 |
Тарас Бульба = Taras Bulba, Nikolai Gogol
Taras Bulba (Tarás Búl'ba) is a romanticized historical novella by Nikolai Gogol. It describes the life of an old Zaporozhian Cossack, Taras Bulba, and his two sons, Andriy and Ostap. The sons study at the Kiev Academy and then return home,...
| 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...
| Author | Guy de Maupassant |
| ISBN | 0140448128 |
Set in the nouveau riche Paris of society women, prostitutes, and playboys; in the Normandy countryside; and on the French Riviera where Maupassant had lived, the thirty-four short stories in this volume are among the most darkly humorous and brilliant in French literature. They focus on the complexity...
| Author | Isaac Babel |
| ISBN | 0140449973 |
Throughout his life Isaac Babel was torn by opposing forces, by the desire both to remain faithful to his Jewish roots and yet to be free of them. This duality of vision infuses his work with a powerful energy from the earliest tales including 'Old Shloyme' and 'Childhood', which affirm his Russian-Jewish...
| Author | Vladimir Nabokov |
| ISBN | 0811201201 |
The work of Gogol—one of the very greatest of Russia's literary geniuses—has become fairly well known in America but has seldom been properly understood. There have been many bad, but a few good, translations of his work available in English, and critics have often tended to put labels on him, to...
A New York Review Books Original
The Soviet writer Andrey Platonov saw much of his work suppressed or censored in his lifetime. In recent decades, however, these lost works have reemerged, and the eerie poetry and poignant humanity of Platonov’s vision have become ever more clear. For Nadezhda...
| Author | Anton Chekhov |
| ISBN | 0140447857 |
The Steppe and Other Stories 1887-91 is a collection that reveals Anton Chekhov's evolution from a novice writer to a master of short narrative form. This Penguin Classics edition is translated by Ronald Wilks with an introduction by Donald Rayfield.
This collection of Chekhov's finest...
| Author | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| ISBN | 0812974778 |
Edited and with an Introduction by Bryant Mangum
Foreword by Roxana Robinson
Benediction • Head and Shoulders • Bernice Bobs Her Hair • The Ice Palace • The Offshore Pirate • May Day • The Jelly Bean • The Diamond as Big as the Ritz • Winter Dreams • Absolution
In...
| Author | Philip K. Dick |
| ISBN | 1598530097 |
Known in his lifetime primarily to readers of science fiction, Philip K. Dick is now seen as a uniquely visionary figure, a writer who, in editor Jonathan Lethem’s words, “wielded a sardonic yet heartbroken acuity about the plight of being alive in the twentieth century, one that makes him a lonely...
| Author | Bruce Sterling |
| ISBN | 0441754007 |
THE FUTURE OF MANKIND CAN TAKE ONE OF TWO DIRECTIONS...
The Mechanists are ancient aristocrats, their lives prosthetically extended with advanced technology. The Shapers are genetically altered revolutionaries, their skills the result of psychotechnic training and artificial conditioning.
Both...
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
| Author | Hilda D. Spear |
| ISBN | 0333372867 |
I can't believe I'm rating this 4 stars! The entire time I read it, I kept thinking, I can't stand this book, it's so bizarre, what's wrong with all these psycho characters, it's so dark etc.... But I couldn't put the book down! How often does that happen with classics? Not that often when I'm reading them!...
