Leonid Andreev (1871-1919) appartiene agli autori più noti e più controversi della letteratura russa, ai suoi tempo confortato da un successo di pubblico che può essere paragonato a quello di un Tolstoj o di un Cechov... Contiene: I sette impiccati L'abisso Giuda Iscariota Lazzaro I cristiani Dies irae Così fu
Virginia Woolf's only autobiographical writing is to be found in this collection of five unpublished pieces. Readers will be struck by the extent to which she drew on these early experiences for her novels, as she tells how she exorcised the obsessive presence of her mother by writing To the Lighthouse.
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ANDREY KURKOV A rich, successful Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and attempts a scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a recently deceased man. A distinctly worryingly human animal is now on the loose, and the professor's hitherto respectable life becomes a nightmare beyond endurance. An absurd and superbly comic story, this classic novel can also be read as a fierce parable of the Russian Revolution.