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The Devil by Leo Tolstoy
Page Count: 81Year: 1911The Devil is a savage and deeply revealing novella by Leo Tolstoy, focusing on the swift moral collapse of a man consumed by forbidden sexual desire. This is a story of a nobleman’s struggle with the animalistic forces he cannot control. Evgeny Irtenev, an aristocratic young landowner, successfully restores his family’s debt-ridden estate and seems […]
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The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy
Page Count: 108Year: 1911“The Forged Coupon” is a story about how a small act can lead to serious consequences. The protagonist, deciding to use a forged coupon, hoped to deceive the store and gain an advantage, but this act led to a chain of fatal events. The novella’s plot portrays a chain of dishonest and cruel acts committed […]
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The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Page Count: 265Year: 1866The young, volatile tutor Alexey Ivanovich is trapped in the fictional German spa town of Roulettenburg, waiting with a bankrupt Russian general and his peculiar, debt-ridden entourage for the death of a wealthy grandmother, “Grandmama,” whose inheritance will save them all. Alexey is madly, masochistically in love with the General’s proud stepdaughter, Polina, who treats […]
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The Golden Calf
Page Count: 503Year: 1932The Golden Calf is the story of the Great Schemer, Ostap Bender. After the events of The Twelve Chairs, Bender seeks new opportunities in the 1930s USSR, hunting for the hidden millions of an underground tycoon named Koreiko. He assembles a team, but it eventually falls apart. In the end, Bender manages to seize Koreiko’s […]
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The Golovlyov Family by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
Page Count: 460Year: 1880This is a mercilessly written chronicle of the disintegration and demise of a noble family. It stands as one of the most hopeless and bleak books, both within Saltykov-Shchedrin’s bibliography and in the history of Russian literature. It is a novel about degeneration, loneliness, and violence — primarily psychological. Later generations can read the book […]
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The Twelve Chairs & The Golden Calf
Page Count: 761Year: 1928-1932This exciting collection features two iconic novels that have become true classics of satire. At the heart of the action is the charming and resourceful Ostap Bender, the “Great Schemer,” whose ingenuity knows no bounds. In the first part, The Twelve Chairs, Bender and his partner Ippolit Vorobyaninov embark on a frantic chase for Madame Petukhova’s […]
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The Petty Demon by Fyodor Sologub
Page Count: 453Year: 1907This unsettling masterpiece of Russian symbolism centers on Ardalion Peredonov, a paranoid and cruel provincial high school teacher whose descent into madness mirrors the moral decay of his entire community. Obsessed with securing a promotion and a comfortable marriage, Peredonov finds his trivial ambitions twisted by suspicion, filth, and escalating fear. He begins to believe […]
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Drama on the Hunt (The Shooting Party) by Anton Chekhov
Page Count: 278Year: 1884This isn’t just a detective story where the killer is known from the first page; it’s a deep psychological drama where every character wears a mask, and the truth is as elusive as a beast in the thicket. You’ll witness a tangled love triangle where jealousy, desire, and deceit intertwine with a fatal shot. Young, […]
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Princess Dzhavakha by Lidiya Charskaya
Page Count: 309Year: 1903This book is about a brave and proud Georgian girl. Little Nina tragically loses her beloved mother early in life and is left in the care of her father, a Georgian prince and battle-hardened general. Nina is an excellent horsewoman and a daring adventurer, yet she possesses a tender, sensitive, and compassionate soul. Having grown […]
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The Twelve Chairs by Ilf and Petrov
Page Count: 479Year: 1928“The Twelve Chairs” (1927) is a novel written almost a century ago, yet it feels as if it were just yesterday. Everyone quotes it, even those who haven’t read a single page or watched any of its numerous adaptations. Ostap Bender, the Great Schemer, has become a household name, with monuments erected to him across […]
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The Amphibian Man by Alexander Belyaev
Page Count: 257Year: 1927Meet Ichthyander, an enigmatic young man who has lived underwater since childhood, thanks to a mad scientist’s incredible experiment. With shark gills replacing his lungs, he’s destined to exist between two worlds: human and aquatic. But can Ichthyander truly find his place when he faces not only marine predators but also human greed, prejudice, and, […]
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The Red Laugh by Leonid Andreyev
Page Count: 101Year: 1904This is a surreal parable about the insane horrors of war, so powerful that, returning in the crippled souls of men from the fronts, they continue to live, gradually materializing and tormenting, torturing, driving mad other, as yet untouched, victims. “The Red Laugh” is at first glance a strange, incomprehensible story. The horrors of war […]
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