Inspired by Dostoevsky's own gambling addiction and written under pressure in order to pay off his creditors and retain his rights to his literary legacy, The Gambler is set in the casino of the fictional...
One of the great achievements of twentieth-century Russian emigre literature, Dark Avenues - translated here for the first time into English in its entirety - took Bunin's poetic mastery of language to...
Over the last fifteen years of his life, Tolstoy collected and published the maxims of some of the world's greatest masters of philosophy, religion and literature, adding his own contributions to various...
This trilogy of short novels, taken as a whole, recounts the young narrator's early life up to his university days, each episode told through the perceptions, points of view and emotions felt by the protagonist...
The career of Mikhail Bulgakov, the author of Master and Margarita - now regarded as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century literature - was characterized by a constant and largely unsuccessful ...
A mysterious stranger named Chichikov arrives in a small provincial Russian town and proceeds to visit a succession of landowners, making each of them an unusual and somewhat macabre proposition. He offers...
It's Christmas, and the air is full of whispers and giggles. But what is the magic of Christmas that everyone is so excited about, wonders Little Mouse? One by one, the other mice tell him what they love...
Alex and Conner Baileys world is about to change.
When the twins grandmother gives them a treasured fairy-tale book, they have no idea theyre about to enter a land beyond all imagining: the Land of Stories,...
Poil de carotte doit son surnom a ses cheveux roux et a son visage couvert de taches de rousseur. Cet enfant mal-aime est le souffre-douleur de toute la famille Lepic. Sa mere, notamment, le persecute...
Quatre-vingt-seize poetes d'aujourd'hui nous cueillent les cent plus belles fleurs de la poesie francaise et nous composent ainsi un bouquet eternel. Des chants de Joachim Du Bellay aux rythmes de Jac...
Un gentleman londonien, Phileas Fogg, et son domestique, le debrouillard Passepartout, quittent Londres pour un tour du monde seme d'embuches, a la suite d'un pari. C'est l'occasion pour Jules Verne de...
D'Artagnan, un jeune homme ambitieux, rejoint a Paris la compagnie des mousquetaires du roi. Il s'y fait trois amis, Athos, Porthos et Aramis, ardemment devoues a la reine de France, Anne d'Autriche, ...