Giovanna Spendel Book order (chronological)

Virginia Woolf's only autobiographical writing is to be found in this collection of five unpublished pieces.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.

'My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man's life?' A poignant tale of love and loneliness from Russia's foremost writer. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

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.

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