A tragic love story set against a wintery Russian backdrop, perfect for deep reflection. This classic novella captures the ...

Many acclaimed American novels of recent years ... obsessed with a cataclysmically beautiful painting, is slightly more ...

THE RACK (414 pp.)—A. E. Ellis—Atlantic-Little, Brown ($4.50). On the face of it, this is a hospital novel that makes the most of medical melodrama. But it is as far removed from the usual ...

The Underground City (TIME, May 26, 1958) was at once a war novel, a treatise on right and wrong, an indictment of the human condition. Its 755 pages were too many and too tiring. Now, in less ...

Epic novel about Russian society, history, and personal struggles during wars A tragic love story exploring infidelity, ...

Tragedy and the Modernist Novel uncovers a temporality central to tragic novels' structure and ethics: that of the moment. These authors made novelistic plot the delivery system for lethal natural and ...

The tragic events that befall Shakespeare’s characters ... translated from the Norwegian by Martin Aitken (Penguin Press). This novel, part of an ongoing series, follows a loosely connected ...