0-1917

The life of Elena Rudina, a poor teenager living in the Tsar-era Russian countryside, is transformed when a noble family with a daughter named Ekaterina arrives in town on their way to visit the Tsar, and the fates of Elena and Ekaterina become intertwined.

An English translation of Leo Tolstoy's classic epic novel about the lives of five aristocratic families in Moscow and St. Petersburg against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars of 1805 to 1814.

Collects short stories from Fyodor Dostoyevsky, including "Notes from Underground," in which a man on the fringe of society monologues about reason and irrationality; and "The Double," where a sullen government clerk meets a future, more mean-spirited version of himself.

The passionate confessions of a suffering man who identifies himself as sick and spiteful.

In St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1888, royal debutante Katerina Alexandrovna, Duchess of Oldenburg, tries to hide a dark secret--that she has the ability to raise the dead--but when she uses her special skill to protect a member of the Imperial Family, she finds herself caught in a web of intrigue.