The story of Mowgli, the abandoned “man-cub” who is brought up by wolves in the jungles of Central India, is one of the greatest literary myths ever created.

As Fyodor Karamazov awaits an amorous encounter, he is violently done to death.

Mann began working on The Magic Mountain in 1912, following a few weeks’ visit to a sanatorium in Switzerland.

The Master and Margarita is a novel, by Russian writer, Mikhail Bulgakov, written in the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1940 during Stalin’s regime. The story concerns a visit by the devil to the officially atheistic Soviet Union

The Mayor of Casterbridge begins at a country fair near Casterbridge in Wessex Michael Henchard, a 21-year-old hay-trusser, argues with his wife Susan.

I could see that she was still terribly afraid but I didnt soften anything instead seeing that she was afraid I deliberately intensified it In this short story Dostoyevsky masterfully depicts desperation greed manipulation and suicide.

In the three stories collected here, Edgar Allan Poe laid down the ground rules of detective fiction. This is a compendium of Poe’s tales of mystery and intrigue featuring his ground-breaking detective Auguste Dupin.

Nikolai Gogol’s short story ”The Nose” is a story about a 19th-century Russian bureaucrat living in St. Petersburg who wakes up one morning to discover that his nose has left his face and takes on a life of its own.