Great novels are often connected-to (or based-on) real-life events. It's fun to search-for (and uncover) those connections. This Collection features fictional stories with real-life tie-ins.
Bookcover image of Notes from Underground, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
The Russian language bookcover image of Poor Folk, by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published in 1846.
Bookcover image of The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Book-cover image of The Gambler, by Fyodor Dostoevsky. This version of the work is translated from the original Russian language into English by...
Bookcover image of The Gambler, by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Translation by Constance Garnett.
What is the subject of this novel? It is something which Dostoevsky understood firsthand since the story portrays life in a Siberian penal colony (not...
Bookcover image of The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Bookcover image of The Killer Angels: A Novel of the Civil War, by Michael Shaara. Amazon provides details about this acclaimed book: In t...
Edgar Allan Poe published his short story, "The Tell-Tale Heart," in the January 1843 issue of "The Pioneer."
This illustration - from the 1852 title page of Uncle Tom's Cabin - is by Hammatt Billings. It depicts the characters Chloe, Mose, Pete, Baby an...
John Langdon, the inspiration (at least, in part) for fictional Harvard professor Robert Langdon in Angels and Demons) wrote Wordplay which was update...
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