A young man tries to climb up the cutthroat Parisian social ladder during the Bourbon Restoration.

Inflated by his own ambition, an ex-student murders a pawnbroker, then faces the inevitable consequences.

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

A collection of short stories by Guy de Maupassant, in order of date of composition.

A collection of Edgar Allan Poe’s short fiction, ordered by date of publication.

The father-in-law of a young widower seeks to find him a new wife.

A socialite starts an affair with a cavalry officer, against a backdrop of wealthy family life in Imperialist Russia.

A collection of all of the short stories and novellas written by Leo Tolstoy.

Arkady returns to his father’s estate accompanied by his friend from university—a nihilist.