Product Description: Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883) was a great Russian novelist and playwright. His novel Fathers and Sons is regarded as one of major works of 19th-century fiction. After the standard schooling for a child of a gentleman's family, He studied for one year at the University of Moscow and then moved to the University of St Petersburg, focusing on the classics, Russian literature and philology...read more

Product Description: Translated By CONSTANCE GARNETT

Product Description: William Henry Hudson (1841-1922) was an author, naturalist and ornithologist. He was born in the Quilmes Partido in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, where he is considered to belong to the national literature as Guillermo Enrique Hudson, the Spanish version of his name...read more

Product Description: An unabridged edition, from the translation by Constance Garnett, with introduction by Edward Garnett

Product Description: In "the Jew," the terrifying title work of THE JEW AND OTHER STORIES by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883) the lovely innocent young Jewess Sara makes an impression on a regiment officer stationed in 1813, before Dantzig. In his obsession he pursues her, and his thoughtless actions result in tragedy for her family...read more

Product Description: This excellent selection is ideally suited to a wide audience of general readers. Written after the author had spent two years wandering among the Bedouin nomads, the remarkable book describes Doughty's attempt to reach Mecca, his endurance of extraordinary hardships, and his first-hand observations of Arab life and culture in the 1870s...read more

Product Description: Conrad's long, detailed prefaces to his works furnish the factual background upon which he based his works of fiction. This collection of the prefaces provide the reader with the author's rationale for each story. An introductory essay by Edward Garnett, his editor, provides yet another side to the story of how Conrad came to write his novels, and, possibly as important, elaborates on the influence of the editor on the final result...read more