Literary Greats: Dostoevsky Gogol Kafka Mann and Beckett

Explore the masterpieces of literary greats like Dostoevsky, Gogol, Kafka, Mann, and Beckett. Discover their iconic books and timeless contributions to world literature.

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Notes from Underground

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky give us a brilliantly faithful rendition of this classic novel, in all its tragedy and tormented comedy. In …
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The Idiot

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s classic tale of one man’s pure innocence in the face of a society obsessed with power, money, and manipulation The twenty-six-year-old Prince Myshkin, …
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The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Originally published in 1990 by North Point Press.
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Great Short Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The shorter works of one of the world's greatest writers, including The Gambler and Notes from Underground The short works of Dostoevsky exist in the …
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The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

by Nikolai Gogol

When Pushkin first read some of the stories in this collection, he declared himself "amazed." "Here is real gaiety," he wrote, "honest, unconstrained, without mincing, …
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Dead Souls

by Nikolai Gogol

Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; …
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The Complete Stories

by Franz Kafka

The complete stories of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial. “An important book, valuable …
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Amerika

by Franz Kafka

Depicts the tragicomic misadventures of a young immigrant in New York.
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The Trial

by Franz Kafka

From one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis: Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year …
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The Castle

by Franz Kafka

From the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial—one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century—the haunting tale of K.’s relentless, unavailing struggle with …
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The Magic Mountain

by Thomas Mann

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • A monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, The Magic Mountain is an enduring classic. With this …
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Death in Venice

by Thomas Mann

Eight complex stories illustrative of the author's belief that "a story must tell itself," highlighted by the high art style of the famous title novella.
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Buddenbrooks

 

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Doctor Faustus

by Thomas Mann

"John E. Woods is revising our impression of Thomas Mann, masterpiece by masterpiece." —The New Yorker "Doctor Faustus is Mann's deepest artistic gesture. . . …
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Samuel Beckett: the Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989

by Samuel Beckett

Gathers the Nobel Prize winning poet and dramatist's short prose into one volume that affords the reader a view of Beckett's development as an artist.
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Three Novels

by Samuel Beckett

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Murphy

by Samuel Beckett

A poor Irishman, seeking his own identity, drifts through worsening stages of despair until his final disintegration.
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Watt

by Samuel Beckett

"An account of the grotesque and improbable adventures of a fantastically logical Irish servant and his master, narrated with mordant wit and rooted in Beckett's …
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