Classicly Collection of Books

The Grand Inquisitor

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Grand Inquisitor is a poem inside Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov. It is recited by Ivan Karamazov, who questions the possibility of a personal and benevolent God, to his brother ..

The Gentle Spirit

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Gentle Spirit is very short – longer than a short story, but barely long enough to be called a novella. Because of this, it doesn’t have the grand scale of Dostoevsky’s longer works. But it does s..

The Gambler

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Gambler is a short novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky about a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian general. The novella reflects Dostoevsky's own addiction to roulette, which was in..

Poor Folk

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Poor Folk is the first novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, written over the span of nine months between 1844 and 1845. Dostoyevsky was in financial difficulty because of his extravagant lifestyle and his deve..

The Crocodile

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Crocodile is a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky that was first published in 1865 in his magazine Epoch. The story relates the events that befall one Ivan Matveich when he, his wife Elena Ivanovna..

The Double

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Double is a novella written by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published on January 30, 1846 in the Fatherland Notes. It was subsequently revised and republished by Dostoevsky in 1866. The Do..

The Village of Stepanchikovo

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Village of Stepanchikovo, also known as The Friend of the Family, is a novel written by Fyodor Dostoevsky and first published in 1859. Sergey Alexandrovich, the narrator is summoned from St. ..

Tales of the Jazz Age

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) is a collection of his short stories - not his best perhaps, but one which contains some of his most famous pieces. "Diamond as Big as the Ritz" is one of the best, as is ..