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Death on the Nile: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot Mysteries, 17)
Agatha Christie • 2011
Heaven
Mieko Kawakami • 2021
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky • 2001
Supreme masterpiece recounts in feverish, compelling tones the story of Raskolnikov, an impoverished student tormented by his own thoughts after he brutally murders an old woman. Overwhelmed afterwards by guilt and terror, Raskolnikov confesses and goes to prison. There he realizes that happiness and redemption can only be achieved through suffering. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
White Nights
Fyodor Dostoevsky • 2024
Notes from the Underground
Fyodor Dostoyevsky • 2023
The Picture of Dorian Grey
Oscar Wilde • 2022
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka • 2009
"The Metamorphosis" (original German title: "Die Verwandlung") is a short novel by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It is often cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is widely studied in colleges and universities across the western world. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into an insect.
The Life of a Stupid Man
Ryunosuke Akutagawa • 2015
'What is the life of a human being - a drop of dew, a flash of lightning? This is so sad, so sad.' Autobiographical stories from one of Japan's masters of modernist story-telling. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927). Akutagawa's Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories is also available in Penguin Classics.
The Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky • 2017
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley • 2018
Asylum
Madeleine Roux • 2014
Six of Crows
Leigh Bardugo • 2015
Animal Farm
George Orwell • 1996
