'I couldn’t put it down!' Sarah Morgan

A drama of ambition, murder, remorse and retribution, the author charts the decline of a Russian statesman, whose dynastic aims were foiled by a guilty past and an audacious upstart.

Presented here in a brand-new translation, The Forged Coupon examines the deep, unpredictable consequences of every human act, revealing the Russian master’s moral preoccupations in the last years of his life, as well as his rejection of Christianity’s simplistic division between good and evil.

Set against the backdrop of the the Pugachev rebellion against Catherine the Great, The Captain's Daughter was Pushkin's only completed novel and remains one of his most popular works.

An uncompromising examination of lust, suspicion and infidelity which was once forbidden by censors in Russia and banned in the US due to its shocking content, Tolstoy's controversial novella is here presented in a new translation, along with 'The Prisoner of the Caucasus', 'Master and Man' and 'After the Ball'.

An unjustly forgotten masterpiece of Russian literature that inspired one of Freud's most important essays, Leonardo also offers an illuminating snapshot of the society of the period - beset with intrigue and religious and social tension.

This collection of Pushkin's shorter fiction contains a number of lesser-known works by Pushkin which are not easily available in English, including the novel Dubrovsky and the stories Egyptian Nights and Peter the Great's Negro.

One of Tolstoy's last published works of fiction, The Devil revolves around the young landowner Yevgeny's irrepressible lust for Stepanida, a sensual peasant woman. Even when he gets married to a respectable upper-class lady, he finds himself unable to put an end to his encounters with Stepanida, and becomes increasingly consumed by guilt.

Vier mannen spelen domino. Een eindeloos lijkende warme middag lang. Onder de tamarindeboom naast het krot van taxichauffeur Boeboe Fiel, vanwaar je het mooie nieuwe huis van de gerechtsdeurwaarder Manchi Sanantonio kunt zien liggen. De twee andere spelers zijn Chamon Nicolas, een huisjesmelker, en Juanchi Pau, de idealist van het gezelschap. De mannen zijn dat zo gewoon, maar die zondag ontwikkelt hun spel zich catastrofaal. Uit de achtergronden van de dominospelers komt een beeld van het le...