Hephzibah – Angela Davis

Bolesław Prus's panoramic novel follows Madzia Brzeska through the debates on women's education, work, and independence in late-nineteenth-century…

Bolesław Prus's only historical novel, set in ancient Egypt, uses a fictional pharaoh's reign to examine state power…

A collection of fictional gallant letters exploring courtship, wit, jealousy, and the social art of love among cultivated…

Five short satirical farces by Anatoly Lunacharsky, written for performance by amateur theatrical groups.

A Georgian village widow embodies industriousness and moral strength, showing labor as a Christian calling.

A novelist's fictional lectures on animal rights spark philosophical debate in this hybrid work of fiction and argument.

Samuel Hopkins Adams's Success follows a desert station-agent to a New York newsroom, testing what ambition costs.

Mazeppa is a five-act rhymed verse drama by Juliusz Słowacki about the young Mazeppa and a double love…

A 1921 novella by Lou Andreas-Salomé exploring a three-way relationship and the tensions between loyalty, desire, and self-knowledge.

A writer hunts a vanished physicist across the Pacific and finds an island secret that draws men into…

Ilia Chavchavadze's short story indicts serfdom by asking whether a dependent peasant like Kacia is truly human.

Lou Andreas-Salomé's Menschenkinder (1899) is a cycle of stories about men and women waking to desire, shame, and…