Contains the title story in which the life of a peaceful public official is permanently changed by a mysterious illness, and includes "Family Happiness," "The Kreutzer Sonata," and "Master and Man," also by the nineteenth-century Russian author.
White nights ; The dream of a ridiculous man ; and, selections from The house of the dead
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
1961
Presents Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Notes From Underground", which explores the passionate confessions of a suffering man who identifies himself as sick and spiteful, as well as two additional short stories and excerpts from his longer work, "The House of the Dead.".
Contains four Christmas stories written by Charles Dickens, including the classic story of Ebinezer Scrooge who is visited by a series of ghosts on Christmas Eve.
Presents forty-three short stories by nineteenth-century American author Mark Twain, including "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," "The Professor's Yarn," and "Is He Living or Is He Dead?".
