A tragic tale of Gwynplaine, disfigured as a child into a permanent grin. Amidst the cruelty of 17th-century English aristocracy, he finds pure love with blind Dea. A powerful social masterpiece exploring the contrast between soul and appearance.

This novel tells the story of a lower-class sailor who, for the love of a bourgeois girl, obsessively educates himself and becomes a famous writer. Having achieved wealth and fame, he becomes completely disillusioned with human hypocrisy and dies..

An iconic Russian novel about generational conflict. Young nihilist Yevgeny Bazarov rejects art, love, and aristocratic values. But a meeting with Anna Odintsova tests his strict theory, deeply changing his views on life, nature, and human feelings.

A tragic novel about the forbidden love of a married lady, Anna Karenina, and officer Vronsky. Set against the rigid 19th-century social norms, it explores passion, adultery, family values, and spiritual search in Russian society.

Leo Tolstoy's classic novel follows Prince Nekhludoff's spiritual awakening as he seeks redemption for ruining the life of Katusha Maslova. The story exposes the injustice of the nineteenth-century Russian legal, penal, and ecclesiastical systems.

The iconic play captures the decline of the Russian aristocracy at the turn of the 20th century. Madame Ranevskaya returns to her heavily indebted estate, only to watch her beloved cherry orchard sold at auction to the practical merchant Lopakhin.