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Идиот Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1874 · ★ 4.2 · 655p · ≈ 21h · Demanding Inspired by an image of Christ's suffering, Fyodor Dostoyevsky set out to portray "a truly beautiful soul" colliding with the brutal reality of contemporary society. Returning to St. Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naive Prince Myshkin—known as "the idiot"—pays a visit to his distant relative General Yepanchin and proceeds to charm the General and his circle. But after becoming… Shares: Russia in fiction, Russian fiction, Russia, Continental european fiction

Voskresenīe Лев Толстой · 1899 · ★ 4.2 · 572p · ≈ 19h · Challenging Resurrection, the last full-length novel written by Leo Tolstoy, was published in 1899 after ten years in the making. A humanitarian cause—the pacifist Doukhobor sect, persecuted by the Russian government, needed funds to emigrate to Canada—prompted Tolstoy to finish the novel and dedicate its ensuing revenues to alleviate their plight. Ultimately, Tolstoy’s actions were credited with helping… Shares: Russian fiction, Russia, Aristocracy, Continental european fiction

Записки изъ подполья Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1864 · ★ 4.3 · 124p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Its nameless hero is a profoundly alienated individual in whose brooding self-analysis there is a search for the true and the good in a world of relative values and few absolutes. Moreover, the novel introduces themes — moral, religious, political and social — that dominated Dostoyevsky's later works. Shares: Russian fiction, Russia, Continental european fiction, Philosophy

Бѣсы Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1871 · ★ 4.5 · 617p · ≈ 20h · Demanding Also known as Demons or The Devils, this is Dostoyevsky’s most political novel. Though critical of the left-wing revolutionaries, split as they often were into disparate factions and cells the author also tacitly rebukes the conservative elite for failing to come to terms with the high levels of disaffection in the country, a stance that would ultimately lead to their downfall. Shares: Russian fiction, Russia, Continental european fiction, Social life and customs

Fairy tales Александр Сергеевич Пушкин · 1919 · 106p · ≈ 3h · Challenging An illustrated collection of four Pushkin stories in verse. Shares: Russian language, Russia

Смерть Ивана Ильича Лев Толстой · 1887 · ★ 4.1 · 76p · ≈ 2h · Challenging This satirical novella tells the story of the life and early death of a high court judge. Ivan Ilych is proud of his achievements and his status in society, despite his poor relations with his wife which renders his home life bleak and joyless. When he becomes hopelessly ill he begins to realize that he has not after all lived the good life he had supposed he was enjoying. Shares: Russian language, Russian fiction, Continental european fiction

Отцы и дети Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev · 1867 · ★ 4.0 · 234p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Fathers and Sons takes the conflict between generations as its subject. The novel's central characters, Yevgeny Bazarov and his disciple and fellow student, Arkady Kirsanov, are self-proclaimed Nihilists: repudiators of all the received truths of art, religion, and politics-all claims to truth, in fact, except those verifiable by scientific experiment. Turgenev thrusts his snarling young radicals… Shares: Russian language, Texts, Social life and customs

Evgeniĭ Onegin Александр Сергеевич Пушкин · 1833 · ★ 4.0 · 245p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Eugene Onegin (Russian: Евге́ний Оне́гин, BGN/PCGN: Yevgeniy Onegin) is a novel in verse written by Alexander Pushkin. It is a classic of Russian literature, and its eponymous protagonist has served as the model for a number of Russian literary heroes (so-called superfluous men). It was published in serial form between 1825 and 1832. The first complete edition was published in 1833, and the… Shares: Russian fiction, Russia, Social life and customs

Три сестры Антон Павлович Чехов · 1901 · ★ 3.8 · 86p · ≈ 2h · Challenging Три сестры: Драма в четырёх действиях Shares: Russian language, Continental european fiction, Social life and customs

Das Schloß Franz Kafka · 1926 · ★ 3.9 · 380p · ≈ 12h · Challenging The Castle (original title: "Das Schloß") is the story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to be admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village, and yet cannot go home. As he encounters dualities of certainty and doubt, hope and fear, and reason and nonsense, K.'s struggles in the absurd, labyrinthine world where he finds himself seem to reveal an inexplicable truth about the… Shares: Bureaucracy, Continental european fiction

Защита Лужина Vladimir Nabokov · 1930 · ★ 3.9 · 255p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Originally published in Russian in 1930. Nabokov released an English translation in 1964. The novel is a fictionalized account of chess master, Curt von Bardeleben. The book was made into the movie, The Luzhin Defense in 2000. Shares: Russian fiction, Continental european fiction

The scapegoat Daphne du Maurier · 1900 · ★ 4.0 · 351p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Someone jolted my elbow as I drank and said, 'Je vous demande pardon, ' and as I moved to give him space he turned and stared at me and I at him, and I realized, with a strange sense of shock and fear and nausea all combined, that his face and voice were known to me too well.I was looking at myself."Two men--one English, the other French--meet by chance in a provincial railway station and are… Shares: Aristocracy, Continental european fiction

Bend sinister Vladimir Nabokov · 1947 · ★ 3.8 · 217p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Book Source: Digital Library of India Item 2015.65702dc.contributor.author: Nabokov Vladimirdc.date.accessioned: 2015-06-29T23:30:58Zdc.date.available: 2015-06-29T23:30:58Zdc.date.copyrightexpirydate: 0000-00-00dc.date.digitalpublicationdate: 2010-10-00dc.date.citation: 1947dc.identifier.barcode: 99999990278106dc.identifier.origpath: /data6/upload/0130/908dc.identifier.copyno: 1dc.identifier.uri:… Shares: Texts, Continental european fiction

Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas Machado de Assis · 1881 · ★ 4.3 · 207p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas é um romance escrito por Machado de Assis, desenvolvido em princípio como folhetim, de março a dezembro de 1880, na Revista Brasileira, para, no ano seguinte, ser publicado como livro, pela então Tipografia Nacional como Memorias Posthumas de Braz Cubas. O livro tem como marcas um tom cáustico e novo estilo na obra de Machado de Assis, bem como audácia e inovação… Shares: Aristocracy, Continental european fiction, Social life and customs

Une mort tres douce Simone de Beauvoir · 1964 · ★ 4.1 · 123p · ≈ 4h · Moderate La journée du mardi se passa bien. La nuit, maman fit des cauchemars. On me met dans une boîte, disait-elle à ma sœur. Je suis là, mais je suis dans la boîte. Je suis moi, et ce n'est plus moi. Des hommes emportent la boîte! Elle se débattait: Ne les laisse pas m'emporter! Longtemps Poupette a gardé la main posée sur son front: Je te promets. Ils ne te mettront pas dans la boîte. Elle a réclamé… Shares: Texts, Continental european fiction

White Nights Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1961 · ★ 4.1 · 239p · ≈ 7h · Moderate White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a poignant short story about love, loneliness, and fleeting human connections. Set in St. Petersburg during the ethereal "white nights" of summer, it follows a dreamy, solitary narrator who meets a young woman named Nastenka. Over four nights, he shares his fantasies and feelings, while she confides her longing for a lost lover. As the narrator falls in love… Shares: Continental european fiction, Social life and customs

Philosophy and living Olaf Stapledon · 1935 · ★ 3.4 This Excellent Collection brings together Stapledon's longer, major books and a fine selection of shorter pieces and Science-Fiction Books. This Books created and collected in Olaf Stapledon's Most important Works illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of the XX century - a man who elevated political writing to an art. William Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) is one of the… Shares: Philosophy

Вишневый сад Антон Павлович Чехов · 1918 · ★ 3.7 · 57p · ≈ 1h · Challenging ""Pevear and Volokhonsky are at once scrupulous translators and vivid stylists of English."-The New YorkerThere have always been two versions of Chekhov's heartrending and humorous masterwork: the one with which we are all familiar, staged by Konstatine Stanislavski at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1904, and the one Chekhov had originally envisioned. Now, for the first time, both are available and… Shares: Russian language, Continental european fiction

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