A writer succumbing to mania tries to find a path out through occultism and religion, in Strindberg’s semi-autobiographical novel.

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

Amateur detective and Catholic priest Father Brown solves mysteries in this second collection of Father Brown short stories.

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 civil servant tired of bureaucracy quits his job to become a writer, and falls in with a group of artists and philosophers.

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

A young man from a working-class English coal miner’s family struggles to reconcile romantic and familial love.

A satire set in far-future London where the king, who was chosen at random, only cares about a good joke.

A spy in London is ordered to stage a bombing to foment political and social chaos.

Five Americans, balloon-wrecked on a deserted island, must find a way to survive while revealing the island’s strange mysteries.

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