An excellent two volume collection by a literary genius who "knew how to walk upside down in our valley of sorrows so as to make it a merry place"

I personally find Tolstoy's novellas more compelling and readable than his much longer epic novels.

A collection of important dramatic works by Fonvizin, Griboyedov, Gogol, Turgenev, Ostrovsky and Pisemsky.

My all time favorite book. I also highly recommend Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons, The House of the Dead. Everything Dostoevsky.

Enter Bulgakov's dark and fantastic world. A magnificently crafted novel and a gripping read.

Lolita established Nabokov as a master prose artist, but Invitation to a Beheading, written much earlier, is a masterpiece in its own right. Shadows of Lolita are seen in Emmie.

Hemingway acknowledged Turgenev as a major influence, which can be traced to the particular manner of laconic understatement used by Turgenev and so familiar to Hemingway readers.

A seminal, historically important work by a socialist thinker often referenced in 19th century Russian literature.