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World Classics eBook Series

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  • The Day of Atonement

    by Vladimir Korolenko ...
    Translated by Marian Fell ...
    Series series World Classics
    Korolenko's answer to the growing antisemitism of the 1880s, 'The Day of Atonement is an integral part of Ukrainian folklore. It is centred on the Jewish holiday 'Yom Kippur' and tells the tale of Yankel, an entrepreneur who makes a deal with the devil in order to save his soul. Korolenko uses a strong, almost caricaturistic tone in order to remind us that Jew's were not inherently sinful, but ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Blind Musician

    by Vladimir Korolenko ...
    Translated by Aline Delano ...
    Series series World Classics
    The Blind Musician follows the lives of a young girl, a boy, and a professional musician. All of whom are blind. Korolenko paints a moving, sympathetic and careful psychological portrait of these three characters as he explores the different ways in which they experience blindness. As he attempts to explain the various actions and decisions of these characters, as inherently linked to their ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Shades

    by Vladimir Korolenko ...
    Translated by Thomas Seltzer ...
    Series series World Classics
    What would you give for a conversation with Socrates? Vladimir Korolenko's short story 'The Shades' is as close as it gets. It follows a conversation between Socrates and Eldipias as they discuss themes such as the truth, the nature of the one, true God, as well as the eternal topics of life and death. A masterful exploration of how the fear of changing one's beliefs can lead to the loss of truth, ... Read more

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  • The Russian Short Story Megapack

    25 Classic Tales

    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo N. Tolstoy ...
    The Russian Short Story Megapack: 25 Classic Tales collects some of the finest and most famous of all Russian literature, by such authors as Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo N. Tolstoy, Maxim Gorky, Anton P. Chekhov, and many more.Complete table of contents:THE QUEEN OF SPADES, by Alexsandr S. PushkinTHE GENERAL'S WILL, by Vera JelihovskyTHE CLOAK, by Nikolay V. GogolTHE DISTRICT DOCTOR, by Ivan S. ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • The Art of Living

    by Epictetus ...
    No writings of Epictetus himself are really known. His discourses were transcribed and compiled by his pupil Arrian (author of the Anabasis Alexandri). The main work is The Discourses, four books of which have been preserved (out of an original eight). Arrian also compiled a popular digest, entitled the Enchiridion, or Handbook. In a preface to the Discourses, addressed to Lucius Gellius, Arrian ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Journey into the Whirlwind

    The Critically Acclaimed Memoir of Stalin's Reign of Terror

    by Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg ...
    A woman's true account of eighteen years as a Soviet prisoner: "Not even Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich matches it."— The New York Times Book ReviewIn the late 1930s, Eugenia Ginzburg was a wife and mother, a schoolteacher and writer, and a longtime loyal Communist Party member. But like millions of others during Stalin's reign of terror, she was arrested—on ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Notes from Underground

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky ...
    Translated by Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky ...
    Series series Vintage Classics
    Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. In full retreat from society, he scrawls a passionate, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Greek Tragedy

    by Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles ...
    Agememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus's Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from the Trojan war to be murdered by his treacherous wife Clytemnestra. In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex the king sets out to uncover the cause of the plague that has struck his city, only to disover the devastating truth about his relationship with his mother and his father.Medea is the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Beauties

    Essential Stories

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    Translated by Nicholas Slater Pasternak ...
    Series Book 1 - Pushkin Press Classics
    This beautiful collection of 13 classic Chekhov short stories is the perfect introduction to an icon of Russian literature.“The greatest short story writer who has ever lived.” —Raymond ChandlerWithout doubt one of the greatest observers of human nature in all its messy complexity, Chekhov’s short stories are exquisite masterpieces in miniature. His work ranged from the light-hearted comic tales ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Art of Living

    by Epictetus ...
    No writings of Epictetus himself are really known. His discourses were transcribed and compiled by his pupil Arrian (author of the Anabasis Alexandri). The main work is The Discourses, four books of which have been preserved (out of an original eight). Arrian also compiled a popular digest, entitled the Enchiridion, or Handbook. In a preface to the Discourses, addressed to Lucius Gellius, Arrian ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • The Fixer

    A Novel

    by Bernard Malamud ...
    Series series FSG Classics
    The Fixer is the winner of the 1967 National Book Award for Fiction and the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.The Fixer (1966) is Bernard Malamud's best-known and most acclaimed novel -- one that makes manifest his roots in Russian fiction, especially that of Isaac Babel.Set in Kiev in 1911 during a period of heightened anti-Semitism, the novel tells the story of Yakov Bok, a Jewish handyman blamed ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Enchiridion of Epictetus

    by Epictetus ...
    No writings of Epictetus himself are really known. His discourses were transcribed and compiled by his pupil Arrian (author of the Anabasis Alexandri). The main work is The Discourses, four books of which have been preserved (out of an original eight). Arrian also compiled a popular digest, entitled the Enchiridion, or Handbook. In a preface to the Discourses, addressed to Lucius Gellius, Arrian ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD