v. 1. [British, French and German writers]. Editor's foreword / by Fredson Bowers ; Introduction / by John Updike ; Good readers and good writers ; Jane Austen : Mansfield Park ; Charles Dickens : Bleak House ; Gustave Flaubert : Madame Bovary ; Robert Louis Stevenson : "The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" ; Marcel Proust : The walk by Swann's place ; Franz Kafka : "The metamorphosis" ; James Joyce : Ulysses ; Art of literature and commonsense. -- v. 2. Russian writers. Dead souls (1842) / Nikolay Gogol (1809-1852) ; Overcoat (1842) / Nikolay Gogol (1809-1852) ; Fathers and sons (1862) / Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) ; Crime and punishment (1866) / Fyodor Dostoevski (1821-1881) ; Memoirs from a mousehole (1864) / Fyodor Dostoevski (1821-1881) ; Idiot (1868) / Fyodor Dostoevski (1821-1881) ; Possessed (1872) / Fyodor Dostoevski (1821-1881) ; Bothers Karamazou (1880) / Fyodor Dostoevski (1821-1881) ; Anna Karenin / Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) ; Death of Ivan Ilyich (1884-1886) / Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) ; Lady with the little dog (1899) / Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) ; In the gully (1900) / Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) ; Notes on the seagull (1896) / Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) ; On the rafts (1895) / Maxim Gorki (1868-1936).