Ronald Wilks

David McDuff

Anthony Briggs

Leo Tolstoy

Offers a collection of Tolstoy's short stories, including "Three Deaths," "After the Ball," and "The Forged Coupon."

The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories

Fyodor Dostoevsky

With their penetrating psychological insight and their emphasis on human dignity, respect and forgiveness, Dostoyevsky’s early short stories contain the seeds of the themes that came to his major novels. Poor Folk, the author’s first great literary triumph, is the story of a tragic relationship between an impoverished copy clerk and a young seamstress, told through their passionate letters to each other. In The Landlady Dostoyevsky portrays a dreamer hero who is captivated by a curious couple and becomes their lodger. Mr Prokharchin, inspired by a true story, is a sly comedy centring on an eccentric miser, and Polzunkov is a powerful character sketch which, in common with the other tales in this volume, questions the very nature of existence.

Poor Folk and Other Stories

Adam Thirlwell

Andrei Bely

An unabridged translation of Bely's comic fiction of reactionary officials, nihilistic revolutionaries, a would-be parricide, a bomb concealed in a sardine can, and the city which as setting and character focuses on the Russian search for national identity.

Petersburg

Irwin Paul Foote

The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories

Isaac Babel

Collected Stories (Penguin Classics)

Babel

Osip Mandel'shtam 

"The Grand Inquisitor" is a passage taken from Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel, "The Brothers Karamazov." The story is a parable told by one brother, Ivan, to the other, Alyosha.

The Grand Inquisitor

Penguin Classics Introduction to The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Penguin Classics)

Bjarni Bjarnason

Mary is a perfectly ordinary girl until one day she can no longer see herself in the mirror... So begins Bjarni Bjarnason's extraordinary tale, as Mary escapes her former life in the company of the ingenious circus performer Michael Blomsterfeld. In Bjarnason's innovative novel, the mystery of Mary's true identity will unfold in a powerful, dramatic climax. '... an extraordinary, beautifully written novel' RODDY DOYLE 'Bjarni Bjarnason is no doubt one of the most remarkable Icelandic authors of his generation...' WORLD LITERATURE TODAY

The Return of the Divine Mary

Penguin Classics Introduction to The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy (Penguin Classics)

Tua Forsström

Tua Forsstrom is a visionary Finland-Swedish poet who has become Finland's most celebrated contemporary poet. Her breakthrough came when she was still only 30 with her sixth collection. Snow Leopard, which brought her international recognition, with its English translation by David McDuff winning a Poetry Book Society Translation Award.

David McDuff

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