Classics

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is a deep exploration not just of how great writing works but of how the mind itself works while reading

These twenty-two stories, ranging from 1886 to 1899, are drawn from Anton Chekhov's most fruitful years as a short-story writer.

1917 is an excellent diverse collection of literary responses to one of the most impactful events in modern world history -- the Russian Revolution.

A collection of short Christmas stories by some of Russia’s greatest nineteenth and twentieth century authors.

Osip Mandelstam is a central figure in both Russian and world poetry, the author of some of the most haunting and memorable poems of the 20th century.

With a mood of intellectual irony and alienation, Notes from the Underground can be seen as the first modern novel, opening existentialism to the 20th century.

These fifty-two stories reveal the extraordinary color and variety of Chekhov's work, with newly translated pieces that show there is no one single “Chekhov story.”

In this ebullient masterpiece, Gogol creates a grotesque gallery of human types that is a classic study in social psychology.

This extraordinary Russian masterpiece follows the turbulent fortunes of the Cossack people through peace, war and revolution.

Volume 3 of Solzhenitsyn's three-part masterpiece: his moving account of resistance within the Soviet labor camps and his own release after eight years.

Volume 1 of Solzhenitsyn's three-part masterpiece: a chilling and detailed report of the historical events precipitating his own arrest.

Natalya Baranskaya's most famous work, "A Week Like Any Other," presents a detailed and realistic view of the daily lives of Soviet women in the 1960s.