Russian Classics
Welcome to the definitive collection of Russian classic literature. This section features the timeless masterpieces by iconic Russian authors who shaped world history and culture, including Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, and many more.
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Professor Dowell’s Head by Alexander Belyaev
Page Count: 220Year: 1925The story takes place in Paris, where a young doctor, Marie Laurent, takes a job at Professor Kern’s clinic. She discovers that Kern is conducting experiments on organ reanimation and that he has kept the head of his teacher, Professor Dowell, alive. Marie begins to communicate with Dowell’s head and learns about his fate and […]
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A Gentle Creature by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Page Count: 72Year: 1876The novella is framed as the distraught, stream-of-consciousness monologue of a Pawnbroker, whose wife’s body lies on a table in the next room following her suicide. He is frantically attempting to reconstruct their relationship and rationalize his own role in the tragedy. The Pawnbroker, a deeply proud and bitter man who was forced to leave […]
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Illustrated Short Stories by Anton Chekhov
Page Count: 530Year: 1903The collection includes sixty-one humorous stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, including such famous works as Daughter of Albion, The Malefactor, Fat and Thin and The Swedish Match. All works in the collection are illustrated with drawings by the talented Czech artist Frantisek Zenisek, who lived and worked at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth […]
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Netochka Nezvanova by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Page Count: 261Year: 1849The story follows the painful childhood and youth of Netochka Nezvanova, a young girl whose life is defined by three distinct stages of suffering and dependence. The first stage details Netochka’s life with her stepfather, Efimov, a failed violinist. Efimov, a ruin of a man who believes he is an unappreciated musical genius, exploits Netochka’s […]
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Odessa Stories
Page Count: 163Year: 1931This book is a passport to the vanished world of old Odessa, where history was made on the dusty streets of Moldavanka. Here, the law is set by Benya Krik — a gangster whose name made the wealthy tremble and the poor rejoice. But this is more than just a chronicle of raids; it is […]
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Professor Dowell’s Head & The Amphibian Man
Page Count: 491Year: 1925-1928The Amphibian Man: This is one of the most touching and famous stories in world science fiction. The plot tells the story of a young man named Ichthyander, who had shark gills transplanted into him as a child to save his life. Now he can live freely underwater, but he becomes an outsider among people. […]
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Spring Torrents by Ivan Turgenev
Page Count: 216Year: 1872The story is narrated by Dmitry Sanin, a nobleman and landowner, who looks back on events that happened thirty years prior during his travels in Germany. One day, while passing through Frankfurt, the protagonist falls in love with Gemma, the daughter of a confectionery owner. He proposes to her and begins to make plans for […]
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The Captain’s Daughter by Alexander Pushkin
Page Count: 216Year: 1836The novella can be viewed from several perspectives: first, it’s a historical novel about Yemelyan Pugachev’s rebellion; second, it’s a psychological drama about coming of age, choice, duty, and mercy; and third, it’s a love story. Pushkin creates a strikingly authentic picture of the era: the distant Orenburg province, the provincial Belogorsk fortress, where the […]
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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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