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  • 8 Classic Russian Novels You Should Read [Newly Updated] (Golden Deer Classics)

    Crime And Punishment, War And Peace, Dead Souls, Anna Karenina...

    by Leo Tolstoy, Golden Deer Classics, Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ivan Goncharov, Ivan Turgenev, Maxim Gorky ...
    This Golden Deer Classics collection contains the following classic Russian novels: - Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol - Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov - Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev - Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina by LeoTolstoy - The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Mother by Maxim Gorky ... Read more

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  • 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol - 4 (2026 Edition)

    by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Louisa May Alcott, Horatio Alger Jr, Grant Allen, David Belasco, Charlotte Brontë, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Lewis Carroll, Susan Coolidge, Charles Dickens, Benjamin Disraeli, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexandre Dumas, R. Austin Freeman, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, George Gissing, Hollis Godfrey, Nikolai Gogol, Maxim Gorky, Henry Rider Haggard, Pieter Harting, Nathaniel Hawthorne, O. Henry, David Hume, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, William Le Queux, Jack London, H.P. Lovecraft, George Moore, Arthur Morrison, Henri Murger, William Shakespeare, Gertrude Stein, Robert Louis Stevenson, Frank R. Stockton, Gene Stratton-Porter, Anthony Trollope, Ivan Turgenev, Jules Verne, Arthur Dudley Vinton, H.G. Wells, Fred Merrick White, Oscar Wilde, Mary Wollstonecraft, Virginia Woolf ...
    This carefully curated anthology brings together a broad selection of timeless works in one digital edition. Readers can discover essential voices, memorable stories and enduring ideas across a rich variety of literary styles. Prepared for comfortable continuous reading, this collection is ideal for exploring classic literature or returning to lasting favorites. ... Read more

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  • 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1

    by Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Honoré de Balzac, Henri Barbusse, Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Samuel Butler, Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather, Miguel de Cervantes, Kate Chopin, John Cleland, Wilkie Collins, Joseph Conrad, James Fenimore Cooper, Stephen Crane, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Theodore Dreiser, Alexandre Dumas, George Eliot, Henry Fielding, Gustave Flaubert, E.M.Forster, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nikolai Gogol, Maxim Gorky, Henry Rider Haggard, Thomas Hardy, Maiden No More, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Homer, Victor Hugo, Suffering During Sleep, ARRESTING THE VICTIMS, Aldous Huxley, Henry James ...
    This carefully curated anthology brings together a broad selection of timeless works in one digital edition. Readers can discover essential voices, memorable stories and enduring ideas across a rich variety of literary styles. Prepared for comfortable continuous reading, this collection is ideal for exploring classic literature or returning to lasting favorites. ... Read more

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  • 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature - volume 2

    by Grant Allen, Lucius Apuleius, Marcus Aurelius, Jane Austen, L. Frank Baum, Dale Carnegie, Margaret Cavendish, G.K Chesterton, Frances Hodgson Burnett, H. G. Wells, John Cleland, Wilkie Collins, Joseph Conrad, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexandre Dumas, Elizabeth Gaskell, Henry Rider Haggard, Victor Hugo, Rudyard Kipling, Mowgli's Brothers, Kaa's Hunting, Her Majesty's Servants, How Fear Came, Red Dog, D.H. Lawrence, Jack London, Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, H.P. Lovecraft, Niccolò Machiavelli, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Plato, Mary Shelley, Mark Twain, Vatsyayana, Jules Verne, Edgar Wallace, Lew Wallace, Virginia Woolf, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Louisa May Alcott, Horatio Alger Jr, David Belasco, Charlotte Brontë, Lewis Carroll, Susan Coolidge, Benjamin Disraeli, R. Austin Freeman, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, George Gissing, Hollis Godfrey, Nikolai Gogol, Maxim Gorky, Pieter Harting, Nathaniel Hawthorne, O. Henry, David Hume, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, William Le Queux, George Moore, Arthur Morrison, Henri Murger, William Shakespeare, Gertrude Stein, Robert Louis Stevenson, Frank R. Stockton, Gene Stratton-Porter, Anthony Trollope, Ivan Turgenev, Arthur Dudley Vinton, Fred Merrick White, Oscar Wilde, Mary Wollstonecraft ...
    This carefully curated anthology brings together a broad selection of timeless works in one digital edition. Readers can discover essential voices, memorable stories and enduring ideas across a rich variety of literary styles. Prepared for comfortable continuous reading, this collection is ideal for exploring classic literature or returning to lasting favorites. ... Read more

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  • Foma Gordeyev

    With a New Critical Introduction

    by Maxim Gorky ...
    Sixty years before the book opens, a bargeman named Ignat Gordeyev is hauling for a rich merchant on the Volga. By the second page he is on his way to a fortune, and Gorky stops to explain what kind of man makes one: people who succeed not because they are talented but because they are "incapable of spurning any means that leads to the achieving of their end, and recognize no law save their own ... Read more

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  • Childhood

    With a New Critical Introduction

    by Gorky ...
    The book begins with a corpse on a floor, described by a small boy who does not yet know what he is looking at. His father lies dressed in white, copper coins on his eyes. His mother kneels in a red skirt, combing back the dead man's hair "with the black comb I had used as a saw to cut through the rind of watermelons".The comb tells you what kind of writer this is. A boy of four does not register ... Read more

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  • My Childhood

    by Maxim Gorky ...
    Out of the darkest depths of life, where vice and crime and misery abound, comes the Byron of the twentieth century, the poet of the vagabond and the proletariat, Maxim Gorky. Not like the beggar, humbly imploring for a crust in the name of the Lord, nor like the jeweller displaying his precious stones to dazzle and tempt the eye, he comes to the world — nay, in accents of Tyrtaeus this commoner ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Creatures That Once Were Men

    by Maxim Gorky ...
    First published in 1918, "Creatures That Once Were Men" is a collection of short stories by the popular and influential Russian author Maxim Gorky, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and arguably the greatest Russian literary figure of the 20th century.Gorky wrote stories, plays, memoirs and novels which touched the imagination of the Russian people, and was the first Russian ... Read more

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  • Tales of the Devil

    by Niccolò Machiavelli, Nikolai Gogol, Maxim Gorky, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant ...
    Tales of the Devil, edited by Maximilian J. Rudwin, is a captivating collection of stories that explore the timeless and multifaceted figure of the Devil in literature. Originally published in 1921 under the title Devil Stories: An Anthology, this masterful work brings together tales from some of the greatest literary minds, spanning centuries and cultures to examine themes of temptation, ambition ... Read more

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  • A Very Russian Christmas

    The Greatest Russian Holiday Stories of All Time

    by Mikhail Zoshchenko, Anton Chekhov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Lev Tolstoy, Vladimir Korolenko, Klaudia Lukashevich, Maxim Gorky, Teffi ...
    Series series Very Christmas
    A collection of short Christmas stories by some of Russia's greatest nineteenth and twentieth century authors—several appearing in English for the first time.Running the gamut from sweet and reverent to twisted and uproarious, this collection offers a holiday feast of Russian fiction. Dostoevsky brings stories of poverty and tragedy; Tolstoy inspires with his fable-like tales; Chekhov's ... Read more

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  • My Childhood

    by Maxim Gorky ...
    Translated by Ronald Wilks ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    Coloured by poverty and horrifying brutality, Gorky's childhood equipped him to understand - in a way denied to a Tolstoy or a Turgenev - the life of the ordinary Russian. After his father, a paperhanger and upholsterer, died of cholera, five-year-old Gorky was taken to live with his grandfather, a polecat-faced tyrant who would regularly beat him unconscious, and with his grandmother, a tender ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Summerfolk

    Full Text and Introduction

    by Maxim Gorky ...
    Translated by Stephen Mulrine ...
    Series Book 0 - Drama Classics
    Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceMaxim Gorky's magnificent response to Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, written in 1904, the year Chekhov died.Summerfolk is a play about the Russian bourgeois social class and the changes occurring around them in the middle of the first decade of the twentieth century. It is set in a world of 'false hopes and unfulfilled promises', where ... Read more

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