This collection of four sea stories by American author Morgan Robertson includes his most famous work —The Wreck of the Titan, or Futility — a tale of an "unsinkable" ship's...
Demons Part One & Two Author Fyodor Dostoevsky Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horrified Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a "novel-pamphlet"...
DOUBL Author Fyodor Dostoevsky While his literary reputation rests mainly on such celebrated novels as Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and The Idiot, Dostoyevsky also wrote much superb short...
Notes From Underground Author Fyodor Dostoevsky Widely considered to be the first existential novella, Notes from Underground presents the diary of a bitter, misanthropic man. The unnamed narrator has, in...
Poor Folk Author Fyodor Dostoevsky Poor Folk is an epistolary novel -- that is, a tale told as a series of letters between the characters. And oh, what characters these...
The Adolescent Part One & Two Author Fyodor Dostoevsky The narrator and protagonist of Dostoevsky’s novel The Adolescent (first published in English as A Raw Youth) is Arkady Dolgoruky, a...
The Gambler Author Fyodor Dostoevsky The Gambler is the tale of a man named Alexei with a passion for -- no, an addiction to -- roulette. In Dostoevsky's own words,...
THE IDIOT Part One & Two Author Fyodor Dostoevsky Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love,...
The House Of The Dead Author Fyodor Dostoevsky Accused of political subversion as a young man, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was sentenced to four years of hard labor at a Siberian prison...
