Centaur Classics: 5 books

This book contains the (almost) complete short stories of Guy de Maupassant in the chronological order of their original publication. Here you will find the largest collection of Maupassant’s short stories available in English (277 short stories). As you will notice, this book DOES...

Netochka Nezvanova - a 'Nameless Nobody' - tells the story of a childhood dominated by her stepfather, Efimov, a failed musician who believes he is a neglected genius. The young girl is strangely drawn to this drunken ruin of a man, who exploits her and drives the family to poverty. But when she is...

This book contains the complete novellas and tales of Henry James in the chronological order of their original publication.

Dostoyevsky's narrator has been summoned to his uncle Colonel Rostanev's remote country estate in the hope that he will act as decoy and rescue Rostanev's former ward, Nastenka Yezhevikin, from the tyranny of Opiskin, a despot and charlatan who has the whole household under his thumb. Forty-eight...

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