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.

Adventurer Allan Quatermain sets out on a mission to Africa to locate a mysterious tribe of white-skinned people.

A collection of short stories about a legendary hunter.

An Egyptian patriot relates the tale of the fall of Cleopatra.

Allan Quatermain leads a group of adventurers into an unknown region of Africa in a search for fame and glory.

Three men travel to Africa and encounter a 2000-year old woman.

A writer of adventure stories indulges in a sudden urge to travel to the islands of the Pacific, and soon finds himself shipwrecked on a remote South Sea island.

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.

A man embarks on a spiritual journey through India.

Ailing, neurotic, and bored with the world, a French nobleman retreats to a secluded cottage in the countryside to create an artificial paradise for himself.