Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) - a famous American poet, novelist, critic, journalist. His influence as a writer and poet on world literature is enormous: it is Charles Baudelaire, French symbolism and almost the entire Russian Silver Age. , the novel 'The S

In the fairy-tale story created for you by one of the most talented young Ukrainian illustrators, Rostyslav Popskyi, it tells about a little girl who came to visit her grandfather in the summer. There, she gets to know the strange Rusties and becomes a witness to the fabulous Night of the Great Wind, when unheard of miracles take place...

The friends decide to go to a summer camp together, but Frida's trip may be interrupted - her parents do not have the funds for it. The girls cannot allow this, so they set out to earn money on their own. Marta opens an online sweet shop, Frida starts walking dogs, Lucia initiates a dream fair. But will the girls be able to realize everything planned, if the leader of the Fashionable caste...

Joseph Roth paints a vivid portrait of Emperor Napoleon’s last grab at glory, the hundred days spanning his escape from Elba to his final defeat at Waterloo. This particularly poignant work, set in the first half of 1815 and largely in Paris, is told from two perspectives, that of Napoleon himself and that of the lowly, devoted palace laundress Angelica-an unlucky creature who deeply loves him....

A cheerful and witty message, a classic of children's literature by Volodymyr Rutkivskyi, tells the story of the amazing friendship between the boy Severynka and the giant goat, which, perhaps unfairly, was called the Ugly Goat. Only at first, when Severinko came to the village for the summer to his grandmother, Tsapishche kindly tested his horns on him. And then - quite unexpectedly - he...

The 'Ukrzaliznytsia' train rushes through the golden fields. Eva returns home with her mother and new friends from her longest journey. During the full-scale war, the girl, like many Ukrainian children, had to board an evacuation train and go as far as possible from home, fleeing from tanks, rockets and bombs. 'Home by Train' is a sensitive story by Maryana Savka, illustrated by Marta...

It tells the story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who as a mid-teenager in 1958 had an affair with an older woman, Hanna Schmitz, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a guard at a Nazi concentration camp. Michael realizes that Hanna is keeping a personal secret she believes is worse than her Nazi past—a...

When people learned to use fire, it changed their lives. Later they invented gunpowder, Greek fire, explosives and firearms. Gunsmiths experimented, alchemists and chemists combined various elements and obtained unexpected reactions and explosive mixtures. And now we have combat poisons and nuclear weapons, an eternal source of energy, which at the same time can cause man-made disasters and...

Moscow, 2028. A scream, a moan, and a death rattle slowly pull Andrei Danilovich Komiaga out of his drunken stupor. But wait, that's just his ring tone. So begins another day in the life of an oprichnik, one of the czar's most trusted courtiers, and one of the country's most feared men.

The sugary, white Kremlin is the heart of Russia in the 2020s, which survived the Red, Gray and White Troubles, closed off from the outside world and plunged into sleep. its refined copy, but in fact it does not belong to anyone. Fifteen short stories from the collection 'Sugar Kremlin', written as if in completely different ways and about different things, add up to a picture of a ghostly,...