An epileptic prince becomes entangled in Russian high society.

A small town becomes swept up in the fervor of attempted revolution.

A comet threatens to collide with the Earth, perhaps bringing about the end of the world.

A middle-class country wife tries to satisfy her yearnings for a luxurious life by engaging in various affairs.

A collection of short stories by Gustave Flaubert.

A mercenary army, employed by Carthage to fight its wars, rebels after not being paid.

Goethe’s first major work, a novel of unrequited love, longing, and deterioration into sorrow.

Pavel Chichikov travels through Russia buying the titles of dead serfs.

A collection of Gogol’s translated short stories and novellas ordered by date of publication.

Emma Goldman recounts her experiences living in the early Soviet Union.

A man builds a farm and a family as society changes around him.

Starvation drives an aspiring writer to the brink of insanity as he struggles to escape extreme poverty, and simultaneously to pursue a woman, in late nineteenth-century Christiania.