Overview :Anton Chekhov, who is often credited with inventing the modern short story, wrote many volumes worth of stories during his lifetime. Conside... Read More
Overview :A predecessor to such monumental works as "Crime and Punishment" and "The Brothers Karamazov," "Notes from Underground" represents a turning... Read More
Overview :First published in 1862, Ivan Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons" is widely considered to be the author's greatest literary achievement. It is a n... Read More
Overview :Raskolnikov is an impoverished former student living in Saint Petersburg, Russia who feels compelled to rob and murder Alyona Ivanovna, an e... Read More
Overview :Fyodor Dostoevsky was the son of a doctor. His parents were hard-working, religious people, but poor. A brilliant career seemed open, but in... Read More
Overview :Rudin, by Ivan Turgenev, is a Russian fiction classic and a nostalgic story of a man in his late twenties, torn between his much loved but b... Read More
Overview :In an age before psychology was a modern scientific field, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (November 11, 1821 - February 9, 1881) was a Russian writer of... Read More
Overview :"Mumu" is a short story by Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev, a Russian novelist and story writer, written in 1854. The story of Gerasim, a deaf and... Read More
Overview :Anyone who has chanced to pass from the Bolhovsky district into the Zhizdrinsky district, must have been impressed by the striking differenc... Read More
Overview :This tale is founded chiefly on facts furnished by the Postmaster-General's Annual Reports, and gathered, during personal intercourse and in... Read More
Overview :Dostoevsky's last and most famous work, The Brothers Karamazov is often considered his greatest novel as well. A tale of human passions, it ... Read More
Overview :In an age before psychology was a modern scientific field, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (November 11, 1821 - February 9, 1881) was a Russian writer of... Read More
Overview :The Crocodile is a classic Russian short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky. This work by the great Russian bard is an unusual but amusing tale abou... Read More
Overview :Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky is regarded by scholars and critics as one of the most important writers of the nineteenth century. His de... Read More
Overview :On the Eve is the third novel by famous Russian writer Ivan Turgenev, best known for his short stories and the novel Fathers and Sons. Turge... Read More
Overview :Banned in Russia, Tolstoy's The Kingdom of God Is Within You was deemed a threat to church and state. The culmination of a lifetime's though... Read More
Overview :Demons is an allegory of the potentially catastrophic consequences of the political and moral nihilism that were becoming prevalent in Russi... Read More