In the first person in the form of a diary by a man who has a few days left to live as recounts incidents of his life. The story has become the archetype for the Russian literary concept of the superfluous man.
Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson, Franz Kafka, H.G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Mark Twain, James Joyce, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Edith Wharton, Rudyard Kipling, Guy de Maupassant, Kate Chopin, Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev, Anton Chekhov, George Eliot, Stephen Crane, Thomas Mann, Alexander Pushkin, Voltaire, Nikolai Gogol, Arthur Conan Doyle, Gustave Flaubert & Jules Verne
PergamonMedia, Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, M.I. Saltykov, Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko, Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Fyodor Sologub, Ignaty Nikolayevich Potapenko, ST Semyonov, Maxim Gorky, Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev, Mikhail Petrovich Artsybashev & Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin
