19th Century

'One death, in exchange for thousands of lives - it's simple arithmetic!' A new translation of Dostoevsky's epic masterpiece, Crime and Punishment (1866). The impoverished student Raskolnikov decides to free himself from debt by killing an old...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics,...

Collected here are Gogol's finest tales - stories which combine the wide-eyed, credulous imagination of the peasant with the sardonic social criticism of the city dweller - allowing readers to experience anew the unmistakable genius of a writer who paved...

Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Dmitry Andreich Olenin, in the hope of escaping the hollowness of his...

Dostoesky's drama of sin, guilt and redemption transmutes the sordid story of an old woman's murder by a desperate student into the nineteenth century's profoundest and most compelling philosophical novel. Grim in theme and setting, the book nevertheless...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics,...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics,...

Alexander Pushkin was Russia's first true literary genius. Best known for his poetry, he also wrote sparkling prose that revealed his national culture with elegance and understated humour. Here, his gift for portraying the Russian people is fully...

Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and as a remorseless satire of imperial Russian venality,...

Poverty-stricken and cut off from society, former law student Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov leads a desolate life in a dreary little room in St Petersburg. Having abandoned all hopes of sustaining himself through work, he now obsesses over the idea of...

The Queen of Spades has long been acknowledged as one of the world's greatest short stories. In this classic literary representation of gambling, Alexander Pushkin explores the nature of obsession. Hints of the occult and gothic alternate with scenes of...

'The most innovative and challenging writer of fiction in his generation in Russia' Guardian Based on a real-life crime which horrified Russia in 1869, Dostoevsky intended his novel to castigate the fanaticism of his country's new political reformers,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681375991Author Alexander PushkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

"It may seem paradoxical to speak of such insights as liberating, or to find in the Underground Man's impassioned rejection of rational humanitarianism a call to arms. Yet each age we live through as individuals demands a certain kind of book- just as...

Turgenev's first major publication, Memoirs of a Hunter is a series of tales based largely on the author's own experiences while hunting on his mother's estate of Spasskoye, where he became aware of the iniquities of the system of serfdom and the...

'Strangely enough, I mistook it for a gentleman at first. Fortunately I had my spectacles with me so I could see it was really a nose.'With this pair of absurd, comic stories Gogol indulges his imagination and delights readers.Introducing Little Black...

No writer has captured the absurdity of the human condition as acutely as Nikolai Gogol. In a lively new translation by Oliver Ready, this collection contains his great classic stories - 'The Overcoat', 'The Nose' and 'Diary of a Madman' - alongside...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781880100103Author Anton ChekhovFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Russian Information Services, Inc.Publisher Russian Information Services, Inc...

This new, revised edition of the award-winning translation of Dostoevsky's classic novel celebrates the author's two hundredth birthday Winner of the Pen/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a...

Presented in a new translation by Roger Cockrell, The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants was originally conceived as a play and first published in 1859, shortly after the author's release from forced military service. Gogolian in style and...

Leskov's stories of Russian life are explosions of imagination. Peopled by outsized characters including serfs, princes, Gypsy girls, horse dealers, nomadic Tartars and garrulous storytellers, Leskov's writing exuberantly fables the national character of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420975017Author Fyodor DostoyevskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 526gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593687314Author Mikhail Saltykov-ShchedrinFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc

It is New Year's Eve, and Nellie, the pretty daughter of a landowning general, is sitting in her room looking in the mirror. Although she is tired and her eyes are half closed, she is spellbound as the reflection in the looking glass dissolves into a sea...

About Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground "The novels of Dostoevsky are seething whirlpools, gyrating sandstorms, waterspouts that hiss and boil and suck us in. They are composed purely and wholly of the stuff of the soul. Against our wills we are drawn...

With his translation, Michael R. Katz makes available the first bestselling novel in Russia, Faddei Bulgarin's social satire Ivan Vyzhigin (1829). The novel is an amusing picaresque filled with local color and comical portraits, narrated by its hero, an...

The first English-language translation of an eccentric, unclassifiable classic An unnamed narrator embarks on a rambling journey across the diverse borderlands of the Russian and Ottoman Empires - all without leaving his divan. Drawing on his own...

With his translation, Michael R. Katz makes available the first bestselling novel in Russia, Faddei Bulgarin's social satire Ivan Vyzhigin (1829). The novel is an amusing picaresque filled with local color and comical portraits, narrated by its hero, an...

A Family Chronicle (1856) is Sergei Aksakov's blend of memoir and fiction that tells the story of one Russian family relocating from the city to Russia's eastern frontier in the steppes of Bashkiria. It is an attempt to record oral tradition in writing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593992197Author Leo TolstoyFormat HardbackPage Count 608Imprint Penguin Young ReadersPublisher Penguin Young ReadersWeight(grams) 567g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781923051157Author Fyodor DostoevskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint SophenePublisher SopheneWeight(grams) 553g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781998621651Author Fyodor DostoevskyFormat HardbackPage Count 472Imprint Revive ClassicsPublisher Revive ClassicsWeight(grams) 857g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781880100530Author Ivan TurgenevFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Storyworkz, Inc.Publisher Storyworkz, Inc.Weight(grams) 168g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798330507870Author Fyodor DostoyevskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Natal Publishing, LLCPublisher Natal Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798348495251Author Nikolai Vasilevich GogolFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Natal Publishing, LLCPublisher Natal Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 336g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781998736294Author Nikolai GogolFormat HardbackPage Count 324Imprint Revive ClassicsPublisher Revive ClassicsWeight(grams) 603g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628344509Author Anton P ChekhovFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint Word Well EnterprisesPublisher Word Well EnterprisesWeight(grams) 422g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789355226211Author Fyodor DostoevskyFormat HardbackPage Count 266Imprint Classy PublishingPublisher Classy Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781998667185Author Fyodor DostoevskyFormat HardbackPage Count 584Imprint Revive ClassicsPublisher Revive ClassicsWeight(grams) 1021g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628344585Author Anton Pavlovich ChekhovFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Word Well EnterprisesPublisher Word Well EnterprisesWeight(grams) 290g