One of the greatest playwrights of all time, ‘The Seagull’ writer’s short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics around the world.
One of the greatest authors of all time, the ‘War and Peace’ received nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1902 to 1906 and for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902, and 1909. His ideas on non-violence had a profound impact on such pivotal 20th-century figures as Mahatma Gandhi.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, sometimes transliterated as Dostoyevsky, is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in all of world literature. The searing psychological depth of Dostoevsky’s ‘Crime and Punishment’ changed perspectives on what novels could do.
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Born in Russian nobility in Moscow, Pushkin is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet, as well as the founder of modern Russian literature.