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Λουκής Λάρας
By Demetrios Vikelas
An old merchant looks back on his youth on Chios when the Greek War of Independence broke out. His memoir follows a young man who is no hero, only someone trying to save his family and his trade as war and massacre sweep through the Aegean.
10 chapters · About 147 minutes of published text
Ο Σάνσελλορ
By Jules Verne (translated by Panagiotes I. Phermpos)
In 1869 the steamship Chancellor sails from Charleston for Liverpool with a cargo of cotton, and a fire in the hold forces her passengers and crew into a desperate struggle at sea. Verne tells it as the diary of a passenger, in Phermpos's Greek, as hunger and fear strip away the veneer of civilised company.
57 chapters · About 232 minutes of published text
Παραμύθι χωρίς όνομα
By Penelope Stephanou Delta
When careless young King Thoughtless inherits a rich and peaceful kingdom, he and his idle courtiers let it fall into ruin. It is left to his son, growing up among the poor, to learn what it will take to set it right. Penelope Delta's fairy tale for children is also a parable about duty and national renewal.
20 chapters · About 170 minutes of published text
Анна Каренина
By Лев Николаевич Толстой
Anna, the wife of a senior official, falls in love with the officer Vronsky and gives up her marriage and her place in society for him. Beside her story Tolstoy sets that of Levin, a landowner seeking love, work and faith in the countryside.
239 chapters · About 1220 minutes of published text
Ася
By Иван Сергеевич Тургенев
A Russian traveller on the Rhine befriends a brother and sister, and the strange, impulsive girl Asya falls in love with him. His hesitation costs him her, and he spends his life remembering.
22 chapters · About 63 minutes of published text
Бедные люди
By Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский
Makar Devushkin, an aging copying clerk, and Varenka, a young seamstress, live across a courtyard and write to each other of their troubles. Dostoevsky's first novel, told wholly in letters, is a quiet study of poverty and dignity.
19 chapters · About 183 minutes of published text
Белая гвардия
By автор Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков
In the winter of 1918, as armies fight over Kyiv, the Turbin family and their friends sit in their apartment, waiting for the city to fall. Bulgakov's first novel is a warm, bitter portrait of a vanishing class.
20 chapters · About 322 minutes of published text
Белые ночи
By Федор Михайлович Достоевский
A lonely dreamer wandering St Petersburg on the white nights of summer meets Nastenka, a girl waiting on a bridge for a lover who has not come. In four nights and a morning, Dostoevsky tells a tender story of loneliness and hope.
6 chapters · About 76 minutes of published text
Вий
By Николай Васильевич Гоголь
A seminarian, Khoma Brut, is made to read prayers over the body of a dead girl for three nights in a lonely church, and learns she was a witch. Gogol drew this tale of the monster Viy from Ukrainian folklore, and it remains one of the most frightening in Russian.
1 chapter · About 53 minutes of published text
Воскресение
By Лев Николаевич Толстой
Prince Nekhlyudov, serving as a juror, recognises the prostitute on trial for murder as the girl he once seduced and abandoned. He follows her to Siberia to atone for it, in Tolstoy's last novel.
129 chapters · About 615 minutes of published text
Герой нашего времени
Five linked tales follow Pechorin, a bored and brilliant young officer who wrecks the lives of those who love him in the mountains and spas of the Caucasus. Lermontov's novel is Russian literature's first psychological novel, told partly through the hero's own journal.
7 chapters · About 188 minutes of published text
Господа Головлевы
By Михаил Евграфович Салтыков-Щедрин
Arina Petrovna builds a fortune and rules her family from the Golovlyovo estate, but her sons are ruined one by one by drink, idleness and deceit, and the most hypocritical, Porfiry (called Little Judas), outlives them all. Saltykov-Shchedrin's bleak family chronicle is among the harshest Russian novels.
39 chapters · About 404 minutes of published text
Господин из Сан-Франциско
By Иван Алексеевич Бунин
A rich American, having worked all his life, takes his family on a luxury cruise to Europe and dies suddenly on Capri. Bunin's story shows how little the money and the ship's comforts matter once he is a corpse in a cheap hotel room.
1 chapter · About 28 minutes of published text
Гранатовый браслет
By Александр Иванович Куприн
A minor clerk who has loved Princess Vera Sheina from afar for years sends her a garnet bracelet on her name day. Her family treat it as a scandal, and Kuprin's story turns on what such a love might truly be.
13 chapters · About 63 minutes of published text
Дама с собачкой
By Антон Павлович Чехов
At Yalta a bored married banker, Gurov, begins a holiday affair with a young woman walking her small dog, and is surprised to find he cannot forget her. Chekhov's story follows two unhappy people drawn into a love that has no easy ending.
4 chapters · About 23 minutes of published text
Дворянское гнездо
By Иван Сергеевич Тургенев
Lavretsky, back in Russia after his wife's betrayal, falls in love with the devout, quiet Liza. Then the news comes that his wife is alive after all, in Turgenev's most elegiac novel.
46 chapters · About 213 minutes of published text
Детство
By автор Лев Николаевич Толстой
A boy on a country estate remembers his lessons, his mother, his tutor and the day he first understood grief. Tolstoy's first published work is a tender, exact portrait of a child's inner life.
28 chapters · About 133 minutes of published text
Дубровский
By Александр Сергеевич Пушкин
Cheated of his father's estate by a powerful neighbour, the young guardsman Dubrovsky turns robber and burns the house. He later enters the neighbour's household in disguise and falls in love with the man's daughter, Masha.
19 chapters · About 93 minutes of published text
Евгеній Онѣгинъ
By Александръ Сергѣевичъ Пушкинъ (1799—1837)
The bored young dandy Onegin rejects the country girl Tatyana's letter of love, kills his friend in a duel, and meets her again years later as a great lady. Pushkin's novel in verse, in the old orthography of the last edition printed in his lifetime, is the cornerstone of Russian literature.
11 chapters · About 111 minutes of published text
Записки из подполья
By Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский
A bitter retired clerk, living in a hole under St Petersburg, explains in a long confession why he despises both reason and himself. In the second part he tells of a humiliating evening that ruined a young prostitute's trust.
21 chapters · About 154 minutes of published text
Записки охотника
By Иван Сергеевич Тургенев
A hunter walking through the Russian countryside meets landowners, serfs, bailiffs and children by a night fire, in sketches that make up a picture of the age of serfdom. Turgenev's book helped turn opinion against the system it describes.
25 chapters · About 457 minutes of published text
Игрок
By Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский
A young tutor in a German spa town watches a Russian general's family wait for an inheritance and is drawn into the roulette rooms by his love for the general's stepdaughter. Dostoevsky, who dictated it in a month to meet a contract, drew on his own addiction.
17 chapters · About 201 minutes of published text
Идиот
By Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский
Prince Myshkin, a gentle, trusting man, arrives in Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium and is drawn into the rivalry between the proud Nastasya Filippovna and the fiery Rogozhin. Dostoevsky set out to portray a truly good man and watched him broken by the world.
50 chapters · About 929 minutes of published text
История одного города
By М. Е. Салтыков (Щедрин)
A mock chronicle of the town of Glupov and its absurd governors, from the wooden-headed to the one who wants to flatten the world. Saltykov-Shchedrin's satire of Russian rule has never been far from the truth.
15 chapters · About 248 minutes of published text