19th Century

'My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man's life?'A poignant tale of love and loneliness from Russia's foremost writer.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first...

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...

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,...

'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...

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,...

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...

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...

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,...

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,...

'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...

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...

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...

A new anthology of Dostoevsky's remarkable work 'A Writer's Diary'. A voluminous and variegated miscellany in which the celebrated author spoke to his readers about issues concerning Russia, it is a work as eerily prescient of global preoccupations in...

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...

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...

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...

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'Pushkin is an extraordinary phenomenon and, possibly, the only manifestation of the Russian spirit' Nikolai Gogol The selected works of one of Russia's greatest writers, including 'The Queen of Spades', 'The Stationmaster' and a selection of Pushkin's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628344530Author Anton P ChekhovFormat HardbackPage Count 234Imprint Word Well EnterprisesPublisher Word Well EnterprisesWeight(grams) 417g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628344592Author Anton Pavlovich ChekhovFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Word Well EnterprisesPublisher Word Well EnterprisesWeight(grams) 435g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628344462Author ChekhovFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Word Well EnterprisesPublisher Word Well EnterprisesWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628344493Author Anton P ChekhovFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Word Well EnterprisesPublisher Word Well EnterprisesWeight(grams) 277g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628344523Author Anton P ChekhovFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Word Well EnterprisesPublisher Word Well EnterprisesWeight(grams) 277g

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