Characterised by Hoffmann\"s remarkable ingenuity and attention to detail, it has been the inspiration for a host of thriller and crime writers. Parisian goldsmith Monsieur Cardillac is a genius at his craft. Greatly admired throughout Paris, he......

This is one of Dickens\" earliest collections of stories. Intended for the holiday season, A Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire offers tales of romance, theft, justice and heart-warming family reunions. Continuing the tradition of ghost......

Compiled by Charles Dickens, and including chapters by Elizabeth Gaskell and Wilkie Collins, \\\"A House to Let\\\" is a composite tale of mystery and intrigue set amid the dark streets of Victorian London. Advised by her doctor to have a change......

Compiled by Charles Dickens, Mugby Junction is a intriguing composite of tales ranging from horror to a realistic portrayal of life around a bustling Victorian railway station. Published for the first time in its entirety, it contains one of......

No Man\'s Land is a profoundly chilling tale of espionage, superstition, and betrayal, and bears all the hallmarks of Greene\'s most famous works. Arriving in the Harz Mountains, within striking distance of the Iron Curtain,......

The eponymous princesses are both spinsters, but there any similarity ends. Zizi, thwarted in love, takes her lot meekly until she comes face to face with her erstwhile lover’s perfidy, and her sense of justice and familial devotion rise to claim a......

Nikolai Gogol’s short story is a sublime work of tragi-comedy. In it, he brilliantly ridicules the Ukrainian passion for litigation and reveals life as something really rather absurd....

Tolstoy\"s final novella, The Forged Coupon is an ingenious study of the destructive powers of evil set against a brilliant depiction of Russian life.Inescapably in thrall to the power his crimes bring him, Stepan goes further and further down the......

Three Years is Anton Chekhov\'s heartfelt attempt to create a \"novel of Moscow life.\" In it, he paints a poignant portrait of the struggles and frustrations that go hand in hand with human relationships....

The Tales of Belkin were the first work of prose fiction to be completed by Russia\"s greatest poet, Alexander Pushkin. Written over a short period in the autumn of 1830, and sometimes referred to as the little parodies, the five stories reflect a......

In this powerful and brutal short story, Leskov demonstrates the enduring truth of the Shakespearean archetype joltingly displaced to the heartland of Russia....