Nineteen-year-old Arkady Dolgoruky, the illegitimate son of a landowner, has difficulty establishing his personal identity amid the political and social upheavals of nineteenth-century Russia, in a new translation of a novel by the author of Crime and Punishment.[...]

Classic / British English Raskolnikoff, a young student, has been forced to give up his university studies because of lack of money. He withdraws from society and, poor and lonely, he develops a plan to murder a greedy old moneylender. Surely the murder of one worthless old woman would be excused, e[...]

"And, in the dark, a thought came to me that no one had ever had before me: I wanted to kill someone, just in order to dare." This graphic adaptation of "Crime and Punishment" masterfully illuminates Dostoevsky's psychological thriller. Acclaimed French artist Alain Korkos vividly brings to life the[...]

Stories include: The Chimes (Dickens), How Much Land Does a Man Need? (Tolstoy), The Crocodile (Dostoyevsky), In The Penal Colony (Kafka), To Build a Fire (London), The Canterville Ghost (Wilde)[...]