The Mantle and Other Stories

A lonely dreamer meets a young woman over four summer nights in St. Petersburg and lets himself hope. Our own Project Aldus edition of Dostoevsky's tender 1848 story.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

A bored Moscow banker and a young married woman meet at a seaside resort and expect a brief affair, not love. Chekhov's most famous story leads this collection in Constance Garnett's classic translation.

Anton Chekhov

A respected judge falls ill and, facing death, starts asking whether his comfortable life meant anything. Tolstoy's most famous short work, in the Louise and Aylmer Maude translation.

Leo Tolstoy

A man on the verge of suicide dreams of a planet where no one has ever sinned, and wakes up determined to change. Our own Project Aldus edition of Dostoevsky's strange and hopeful 1877 story.

Fyodor Dostoevsky