The Steppe and Other Stories, 1887-91
10 best books like The Steppe and Other Stories, 1887-91 (Anton Chekhov): Girl, Woman, Other, Eugene Onegin, An Orchestra of Minorities, Oblomov, First Love and Other Stories, Growth of the Soil, Mephisto, Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, Selected Stories, The Death of Ivan Ilyich/Master and Man, Great Short Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky
| Author | Bernardine Evaristo |
| ISBN | 0241364906 |
Joint Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2019
Teeming with life and crackling with energy - a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood
Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories...
| Author | Alexander Pushkin |
| ISBN | 0192838997 |
Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in imperial Russia during the 1820s, Pushkin's novel in verse follows the emotions and destiny of three men - Onegin the bored fop, Lensky the minor elegiast, and a stylized Pushkin himself...
An Orchestra of Minorities
| Author | Chigozie Obioma |
| ISBN | 0316412392 |
A heart-breaking and mythic story about a Nigerian poultry farmer who sacrifices everything to win the woman he loves, by Man Booker Finalist and author of The Fishermen, Chigozie Obioma.
A contemporary twist on the Odyssey, An Orchestra of Minorities is narrated by the chi, or spirit of a...
| 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...
| 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 | Knut Hamsun |
| ISBN | 0394717813 |
“Growth of the soil was something different, a thing to be procured at any cost; the only source, the origin of all. A dull and desolate existence? Nay, least of all. A man had everything; his powers above, his dreams, his loves, his wealth of superstition.”
Having spent most of a weekend...
| Author | Klaus Mann |
| ISBN | 0140189181 |
Klaus Mann - Thomas Mann’s son - wrote MEPHISTO while living in exile from the Germany of World War II. In it he captures the Isherwood-like atmosphere of Nazi Germany while telling a satiric story about the rise to power of one man - a thinly veiled caricature of his own brother-in-law. The man is Hendrik...
| Author | Nikolai Gogol |
| ISBN | 0140449078 |
Gogol's detailed, breathlessly sarcastic and mean spirited story telling is a joy to read.
Unfortunately some stories stop abruptly with no decent pay off for the gloriousness before it: The Carriage has an obvious and anti-climatic finale and The Government Inspector didn't finish as grandly...
| Author | Leo Tolstoy |
| ISBN | 0679642935 |
This new edition combines Tolstoy’s most famous short tale, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, with a less well known but equally brilliant gem, Master and Man, both newly translated by Ann Pasternak Slater. Both stories confront death and the process of dying: In Ivan Ilyich, a bureaucrat looks back over...
| 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...
Erebus: The Story of a Ship
In his major new work, Michael Palin – former Monty Python stalwart and much-loved television globe-trotter – brings to life the world and voyages of HMS Erebus, from its construction in the naval dockyards of Pembroke, to the part it played in Ross’s Antarctic expedition of 1839–43, to its...
| Author | Juan Gómez Bárcena |
| ISBN | 8416677387 |
Kanada comienza donde la mayoría de las novelas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial terminan: con el fin del conflicto. Porque en 1945 se interrumpen las matanzas, pero se inicia otra tragedia que ha suscitado mucha menos literatura: el imposible regreso a casa de millones de supervivientes.
El protagonista...
