Set in the 1850s, The three clerks exposes and probes the relationships between three clerks and the three sisters who became their wives. At the same time it satirizes the Civil Service examinations and financial corruption in dealings on the stock market.

The third and last novel of the D'Artagnan Romances series by Alexandre Dumas, Vicomte of Bragelonne tells the story features D'Artagnan and the musketeers during the reign of Louis XIV between 1660 and 1667. This novel is traditionally broken into three parts:€Ten Years Later, €Louise de la Valliere and€The Man in the Iron Mask.

Tells the story of the life of a 19-year-old intellectual, Arkady Dolgoruky, who is the illegitimate child of the controversial and womanizing landowner Versilov. The novel focuses primarily on the conflict that arises between Arkady and Versilov, when Arkady rejoins his family in St. Petersburg. Arkady who has been away at boarding school hardly knows his family and when he comes to learn more about them he becomes embroiled in the scandalous affairs of his father. Rich with the depictions of the complex psychological, emotional, and moral conflicts that plague the human condition and are so common to the characters of Dostoyevsky's work, "A Raw Youth (The Adolescent)" is a classic work by an author who many consider as the greatest to ever have lived.