Read Anna Karenina

Prince Myshkin, too good for Petersburg society, and the woman two men destroy.

Three provincial girls in 1958 Moscow, and the same three twenty years on.

A woman waits for a soldier who will not return; the Soviet film that won the Palme d'Or.

Tolstoy's epic of Russia in the Napoleonic age (1869).

A successful judge falls ill and works out, over three months of dying, that he lived the whole thing wrong.

A spiteful clerk in a Petersburg basement argues with everyone; the first existentialist novel.

Three brothers, a murdered father and the Grand Inquisitor; Dostoevsky's last novel.

Bazarov the nihilist visits the country estate of his friend's family; Turgenev's generation gap.