Books like Fathers and Sons
A young nihilist clashes with his traditionalist host in pre-reform Russia, and the generational conflict becomes a portrait of an entire society on the verge of transformation.
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Demons
A provincial Russian town is thrown into chaos by a small cell of revolutionaries, led by a manipulative young radical and orbiting the magnetic, hollow nobleman Stavrogin.
Anna Karenina
A married aristocrat's affair with a dashing officer unravels her life, her family, and her sanity against the backdrop of Russian high society.
War and Peace
Five aristocratic families navigate love, ambition, and survival as Napoleon's invasion of Russia reshapes the world around them.
The Mill on the Floss
A young woman's passionate nature collides with provincial convention in mid-Victorian England, and the cost of being too much for your world is devastating.
A Gentleman in Moscow
A Russian aristocrat is sentenced to house arrest in a luxury hotel for the rest of his life and discovers that a full existence can unfold within four walls.
The Idiot
Prince Myshkin, a gentle epileptic returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, is drawn into the passions of a society he cannot read, caught between the beautiful, damaged Nastasya Filippovna and the proud Aglaya Yepanchin.
The Leopard
In 1860, as Garibaldi's troops land in Sicily, Prince Fabrizio of Salina watches the aristocratic world he was born into give way to the new Italy, and arranges his nephew's marriage to the daughter of a rich upstart.
The Cherry Orchard
An aristocratic family's estate is sold to a merchant, and the cherry orchard they can't save becomes a symbol of everything that changes when a social order dies.
Cancer Ward
In 1955, in the cancer ward of a hospital in Soviet Central Asia, Oleg Kostoglotov, a former prisoner exiled for life, argues with his doctors and fellow patients about how to live and die.
Cosima
Deledda's late novel of her own girlhood in Nuoro, Sardinia, where a girl from a strict, conventional household secretly writes stories and dreams of a life in literature.
In the First Circle
Over three days in December 1949, imprisoned scientists in a special prison outside Moscow work on secret projects for Stalin's police while a diplomat makes a dangerous phone call.
A Country Doctor's Notebook
Stories drawn from Bulgakov's year as a newly qualified doctor at a remote country hospital, where he faces amputations, difficult births and blizzards with only his textbooks, and finds the diary of a colleague who fell into morphine addiction.