The Eternal Husband and Other Stories
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 
The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
by Nikolai Gogol | 
Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
by Nikolai Gogol |
The Cossacks
by Leo Tolstoy | 
A Gentle Creature and Other Stories
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 
Rudin
by Ivan Turgenev | 
Home of the Gentry
by Ivan Turgenev | 
Diary of a Madman
by Nikolai Gogol | 
The Complete Short Novels
by Anton Chekhov | 
The Queen of Spades
by Alexander Pushkin | 
Oblomov
by Ivan Goncharov | 
Poor Folk
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 
The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoyevsky
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 
First Love
by Ivan Turgenev | 
The Adolescent
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
Mumu
by Ivan Turgenev | 
Spring Torrents
by Ivan Turgenev | 
Virgin Soil
by Ivan Turgenev | 
The Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway
by Ernest Hemingway |
Malgudi Days
by R. K. Narayan |
Turgenev's first major prose work is a series of twenty-five Sketches: the observations and anecdotes of the author during his travels through Russia satisfying his passion for hunting. His album is filled with moving insights into the lives of those he acquaints with, peasants and landowners, doctors and bailiffs, neglected wives and bereft mothers each providing a glimpse of love, tragedy, courage and loss, and anticipating Turgenev's great later works such as First Love and Fathers and Sons. His depiction of the cruelty and arrogance of the ruling classes was considered subversive and led to his arrest and confinement to his estate, but these sketches opened the minds of contemporary readers to the plight of the peasantry and were even said to have led Tsar Alexander II to abolish serfdom.