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  • A Christmas Carol

    A Christmas Carol — Charles Dickens. On Christmas Eve, the miser Ebenezer Scrooge receives visits from spirits who confront him with his past, present and possible future. Dickens’s ghost story links personal change with generosity toward those in need.

    Charles DickensNovellaeBook

  • Carmilla

    Carmilla — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. In an isolated Styrian castle, Laura welcomes the beautiful and enigmatic Carmilla as a guest. Their growing intimacy is shadowed by disturbing dreams and unexplained illness, drawing Laura toward an older terror connected with the ruined Karnstein family.

    Joseph Sheridan Le FanuHorroreBook

  • First Love

    First Love — Ivan Turgenev. Sixteen-year-old Vladimir becomes fascinated by his neighbouring princess Zinaida during a summer near Moscow. His first infatuation develops into a painful discovery about desire, adulthood, and the people closest to him.

    Ivan TurgenevNovellaeBook

  • Notes from the Underground

    Notes from the Underground — Fyodor Dostoevsky. An isolated former civil servant challenges confident theories of rational behavior while exposing his own contradictions and resentment. Recollections of humiliation and his encounter with Liza reveal the painful gap between his desire for connection and his impulse to reject it.

    Fyodor DostoevskyNovellaeBook

  • Stradija

    Stradija — Radoje Domanović. A traveller enters Stradija and finds arbitrariness, hypocrisy and idleness behind its fine speeches and liberal laws. Domanović’s imaginary country exposes the gap between public promises and lived reality.

    Radoje DomanovićNovellaeBook · Audiobook

  • The Cossacks: A Tale of 1852

    The Cossacks: A Tale of 1852 — Leo Tolstoy. The young Russian officer Olenin seeks a new life among Cossacks in the Caucasus. Hunting, village life, and his feelings for Maryanka challenge his ideals of happiness and his place within the community.

    Leo TolstoyNovellaeBook

  • The Time Machine

    The Time Machine — H. G. Wells. An inventor journeys far into the future and encounters the apparently gentle Eloi and the subterranean Morlocks. His account turns a remarkable scientific adventure into a disturbing reflection on class, evolution, and the fate of humanity.

    H. G. WellsNovellaeBook
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