Saladin Foster and his wife Electra are jolted out of their tranquillity by the stunning news that...

When Chadwick Newsome lingers too long in Paris, his mother, a wealthy New England widow, sends...

The Call of the Wild is the story of a bold-spirited dog, half St. Bernard and half Scottish shepherd, who is stripped from his comfortable life on a California estate and thrust into the rugged terrain of the Klondike.

I am as a last year's leaf, clinging lightly to the stem. The first breath that blows, and I fall. This...

Children of the Frost is a collection of stories about the Indians of the frozen Northland with whom London was familiar from his Gold Rush travels.

The Cossacks is one of the finest depictions of Cossack society in Russian literature....

Crime and Punishment is an intense psychological study, a terrifying murder mystery, and a fascinating detective thriller.

The Death of Ivan Ilyich is a masterpice of 19th-century fiction. Its conclusion, which triumphantly...

In The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Tolstoy shows how an unreflective man confronts the moment of truth when he comes face to face with his own mortality.

The last to be written and published of The Leatherstocking Tales tells the story of Natty Bumppo's...

Turgenev dramatized the volcanic issues that divided a Russia torn by the social unrest of peasants against masters, of fathers against sons.

A man of many passions, Dostoevsky revealed two of them in The Gambler: his lamentable love for Apollinaria Suslova and his obsession for gambling.

Hear some of the greatest essays ever written! This unabridged collection covers a multitude...

This collection of nineteenth-century masterworks provides rich insights into human nature and social conditions in Russia and France.

No one plumbs deeper depths of the psyche than French and Russian authors. This wide-ranging...

Tolstoy, Flaubert, Pushkin, Daudet, and many more of the greatest French and Russian authors...

When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partner, his jealousy consumes him and drives him to murder....

“The Kreutzer Sonata” is a macabre story of domestic strife ending in murder, a penetrating study of jealousy, and a criticism of the way in which society educates the young about sex.

Flaubert’s Emma Bovary is an unfeeling, unintelligent woman who needs to dominate her surroundings.

“The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg” is the last and greatest of Twain’s attempts to disprove the notion that we of this republic are inherently more virtuous than others.

“The first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels.... everything that is good in the modern story is found in The Moonstone.”

This is a tale set in the pleasure-loving society of Napoleon III’s France, of a beautiful, capricious, good-natured yet noxious prostitute named Nana.

Emile Zola, along with fellow novelists Honore de Balzac and Gustave Flaubert, was an early realist in French literature....

Notes from the Underground marks a turning point in Dostoevsky’s writing. It announces the moral, political, and social ideas that he will further examine in Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov.

The story begins with an investigation into some strange reports of an “opera ghost,” legendary for making the great Paris opera performers ill at ease when they sit alone in their dressing rooms.