Part of Alma Classics Evergreen series at GBP4.99, this edition of the gambler in a brand new translation includes pictures and an extensive section on Dostoevsky's life and works

New, award-winning translation of Goncharov's popular masterpiece Rich in situational comedy, psychological complexity and social satire, Oblomov - here presented in Stephen Pearl's award-winning translation, the first major English-language version of the novel in more than fifty years - is a timeless novel and a monument to human idleness.

First translation into English of an extraordinary document that lays bare the jealousies felt but rarely expressed by writers, and an eternal monument to literary paranoia.

This is Gogol's humour at its best, where the most irrelevant-seeming details and turns of phrase suddenly take on a bizarre life of their own.

The House of the Dead, here presented in a brand-new translation, is based on Dostoevsky's own autobiographical experiences during a four-year internment in a prison colony in Siberia.

“We zijn de persoon door de persoon die we waren, maar ik wil niet iemand worden die ik ooit ben geweest. Ik wil iemand anders worden. Ik wil veranderen.”

Serge Kettermuid nadert zijn vijftigste verjaardag. Het zal dan tevens een halve eeuw geleden zijn dat zijn moeder in het kraambed het leven liet. Ter ere van die gedenkwaardige gelegenheid organiseert zijn vrouw Jennie een heus verrassingsfeest. Hun oudste zoon Jakke heeft iets ingrijpends meegemaakt op de boerderij van boer Médard en...

The Double, Dostoevsky's second published work of fiction, which foreshadows in its themes many of his mature novels, is the surreal and hallucinatory tale of an unfortunate anti-hero, at once chilling in its depiction of the dark sides of human nature and exuberantly comical.

Ele escreveu uma história de espionagem.

Ela quis viver uma.

Aceitaram o jogo. Um jogo sem tabuleiro, sem instruções e sem saída.

Simularam uma missão. Talvez. Talvez não.

O que começou como brincadeira entre um escritor exausto e uma mulher à beira da implosão depressa se transformou numa espiral — de uma cassete VHS, de cartas, de cidades, de pele, de silêncio. Cádiz, Tãnger, Veneza, Scopello: cada lugar uma armadilha, cada carta um código, cada toque uma traição possível.

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Here presented for the first time in unabridged form in a sparkling new translation by Stephen Pearl, Goncharov's final novel deserves to be reassessed as one of the most important classics of nineteenth-century Russian literature.

A collection of the best of Vladimir Odoevsky's short fiction, including 'Two Days in the Life of the Terrestrial Globe', 'Beethoven's Last Quartet', 'Imbroglio' and 'The Little Town in the Snuffbox'.