Tolstoy's most famous novella is an intense and moving examination of death and the possibilities of redemption, here in a powerful translation by the award-winning Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
Ivan Ilyich is a middle-aged man who has spent his life focused on his career as a bureaucr[...]
The centerpiece of this collection , "The Eternal Husband" (1890) is one of Dostoevsky's most perfect works. Classical in form, it presents his most profound exploration of mimetic rivalry and the duality of human consciousness. Told from the point of view of a rich and idle man who is confronted by[...]
A new translation of the nineteenth-century Russian master's short classics includes The Steppe, The Duel, The Story of an Unknown Man, Three Years, and My Life. 15,000 first printing.[...]
Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels. The Steppe-the most lyrical of the five-is an account of a nine-year-old boy's frightening journey by wagon train across the steppe of southern Russia to enroll in a distant [...]
Heteka, Afrikan tähti, Kiito-vetoketju, Reino-tohvelit, Hota-särkypulveri, Körttipastilli ja Hymypoika-patsas. Arjen klassikot ovat ikkuna viime vuosisadan Suomeen. Näissä meille kaikille tutuissa tuotteissa ajan henki kuvastuu kirkkaana. Perinteisiin tuotemerkkeihin liittyy vahvoja tunnesitei[...]