This reader contains works from modern Russian authors, all of which are very significant in the context of modern Russian literature. All of the texts are accompanied with lexical, stylistic, grammatical and literary commentaries, which give necessary information for activating the memory. Each story has dictionary definitions for difficult words, with example sentences for the most...

This 'ABC' is an indispensable assistant for parents and teachers who want to help their kid learn how to read soon. Large letters, funny pictures, simple, entertaining stories will turn reading lessons into a favorite game.

A fictionalized account of the rise and fall of the Nazi Party during the inflation era. A gripping contemporary novel The Munich museum director Martin Krüger has made himself unpopular. Some people would like to be rid of him. The perjury trial that is being framed against him does not end well for him. But he has friends who try to prove his innocence.

It is a pseudo-autobiographical postmodernist prose poem by Russian writer and satirist Venedikt Erofeev. Written between 1969 and 1970 this book was passed around in samizdat for a long time. The story follows an alcoholic intellectual, Venya (or Venichka), as he travels by a suburban train on a 125 km (78 mi) journey from Moscow to visit his beautiful beloved and child in Petushki, a city...

The adapted text of the popular novel. Includes comments, exercises, keys, glossary, illustrations.

The last, most voluminous and one of the most famous novels by F. M. Dostoevsky addresses the reader to timeless moral and philosophical questions about sin, retribution, compassion and mercy.

The wild success that fell upon Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov after the publication of The Twelve Chairs (1928) prompted the co-authors to resurrect their hero, the cheerful and charming swindler Ostap Bender, and set about writing The Golden Calf (1931). This time, the great schemer is developing an operation to take money from the underground millionaire Koreiko. Sparkling humor, unexpected...

Level B1. This book is intended for students who speak Russian at the first certification level. Post-text educational material is presented in the headings: Control - questions on the understanding of general factology; Motivation - issues that establish the causal relationships of reactions, actions and actions of characters; Discussion - issues that contribute to a more serious understanding...

This book contains the best sayings of Mark Twain: about money and work, about age and habits, about God and the Bible, about truth and lies - and about everything else. Many of them are published for the first time.