One of the most influential literary works of our time, One Hundred Years of Solitude remains a dazzling and original achievement by the masterful Gabriel Garcia Marquez, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendiá family. Inventive, amusing,...

The sand-blasted world of Arrakis has become green, watered, and fertile. Old Paul Atreides, who led the desert Fremen to political and religious domination of the galaxy, is gone. But for the children of Dune, the very blossoming of their land contains the seeds of its own destruction. The altered climate is destroying the giant sandworms, and this in turn is disastrous for the planet's...

Growing up in the hives, Cricket has always had a million questions. Why are trees forbidden, even in art? Why do her parents seem to hate her? And the biggest, most dangerous and secret question of all: Why is Cricket immune to Queen Wasp's powers? Whenever the queen takes control of all the HiveWings, speaking through their mouths and seeing through their eyes, Cricket has to hide, terrified...

It is a very short list of 20th-century American plays that continue to have the same power and impact as when they first appeared - 57 years after its Broadway premiere, Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire is one of those plays. The story famously recounts how the faded and promiscuous Blanche DuBois is pushed over the edge by her sexy and brutal brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski....

rytellers of our time, an outstanding master of black humor, an adherent of militant cleanliness and gentle misanthropy. During his long life, Dahl managed to serve in the military aviation, wrote several screenplays, including for Walt Disney, and many books that enjoyed phenomenal success among children and adults and were repeatedly filmed (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Fantastic Mr....

12-year-old Billy fears the dark more than anything else. One evening, he leaves the house and finds himself in the dark Kingdom of Night. The Kingdom of Night is a whole world ruled by a Magician with his retinue of witches, sorcerers and Shadow People. A completely new world, memorable characters and cool locations! Billy is the most ordinary boy, the same as you. If he managed to overcome...

er brother and sister are . . . well, they're mostly annoying. But being in the Green family means seeing and taking care of animals all the time. While helping her mom on a house call, Jasmine visits a new litter of piglets and discovers a forgotten runt hidden underneath its brothers and sisters. Poor little piglet. It is so tiny that it can't even drink! Its owner refuses to rescue it. So...

Liam has always felt a bit like he's stuck between two worlds. This isprimarily because he's a twelve-year-old kid who looks like he's about thirty. Sometimes it's not so bad, like when his new principal mistakes him for a teacher on the first day of school or when he convinces a car dealer to let him take a Porsche out on a test drive. But mostly it's just frustrating, being a kid trapped in...

The works included in this collection - from philosophical 'Nausea' to autobiographical 'Words' - to one degree or another unite the main themes of Sartre's work, to which the great existentialist writer again and again turned his whole life: freedom, creativity, self-awareness in the world, death. Moreover, these themes themselves in Sartre are inextricably linked. After all, freedom in his...

The book contains stories by Boris Zhitkov (1882-1938) from the cycles 'What Happened', 'About Animals', 'Sea Stories'. Curious children will read them with pleasure, having learned a lot of interesting facts for themselves.

dubious, ready-made people hunt for the canvas of the unknown Alexander Berg? How is the image of an unremarkable house connected with the fate of the disappeared father, a lover of riddles, ciphers and hidden meanings? The 19-year-old hero, a journalism student, became interested in the picture only in order to write an educational report, and as a result, he was drawn into a detective story....

No other kangeroo can hop like Maloo! But one day Maloo's friends find him stepping instead of hopping. What's wrong, Maloo? His pals look for ways to help Maloo regain the spring in his step. With patience, support and a little hop from his friends, Maloo gets his bounce back.