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Actually, Dostoevsky’s first published book was a translation of Balzac’s Eugénie Grandet.

Я не по бідності обходжусь без вина.
Мені ні суд людський, ні кара не страшна.
Я п'ю лише тоді, коли на серці радість.
А нині в серці ти - і я не п'ю вина!

The English poet Roger McGough sends readers’ eyes travelling to and fro the way a tennis ball would across a net when they read 40-Love. Indeed, the poem itself – like the “middle aged couple” he writes about – is split by such a ‘net.’

Few writers could create an atmosphere like Daphne du Maurier. Her stories begin elegantly, then something shifts. A beautiful house can become a prison, love can turn into possession, and silence can be more frightening than a scream.
Suddenly you are reading faster than you planned.

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Before writing Catch-22, Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 – December 12, 1999) served as a bombardier in World War II and flew 60 combat missions over France and Italy.
That experience became the seed of one of the most famous anti-war novels of the 20th century — a book where war is shown not as noble glory, but as a terrifying system of fear, paperwork, commands, and absurd rules.