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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 ..

The House of the Dead

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The House of the Dead is a semi-autobiographical novel published in 1860–2 in the journal Vremya by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, which portrays the life of convicts in a Siberian prison camp. The..

Flappers and Philosophers

F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald followed up his smash hit debut novel This Side of Paradise with this 1920 collection of short stories, Flappers and Philosophers, that contains many signature pieces like Bernice ..

The Machine Stops

E.M. Forster

The Machine Stops is a science fiction short story by E. M. Forster. After initial publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Review, the story was republished in Forster's The Eternal Moment and Other S..

Where Angels Fear to Tread

E.M. Forster

Where Angels Fear to Tread is a novel by E. M. Forster. The title comes from a line in Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism: "For fools rush in where angels fear to tread"..