The novel 'Doctor Zhivago' is one of the outstanding readings of Russian literature, which for many years remained closed to a wide circle of circles in the country who know about it only from scandalous and unscrupulous party criticism. The insecurity and immortality of a creative person, an intellectual and the turning points in the life of our people are the central theme of the final...

Творчество американского писателя Джона Стейнбека - заметная страница в мировой литературе. Стейнбек - лауреат Пулитцеровской и Нобелевской премий - художник яркий, выразительный, остро переживающий проблемы человечества. После выхода романа 'Гроздья гнева', Теодор Драйзер назвал его автора одним из 'самых талантливых прозаиков нашего поколения'. В конце 30-х годов многие центральные штаты США...

Сергей Довлатов — один из наиболее популярных и читаемых русских писателей конца ХХ — начала XXI века. Его повести, рассказы и записные книжки переведены на множество языков, экранизированы, изучаются в школе и вузах. «Заповедник», «Зона», «Иностранка», «

«Дети Арбата» — одно из самых значительных произведений русской литературы ХХ века. Главные герои этой эпопеи — столичная молодежь тридцатых годов прошлого столетия. Верные друзья, тесный кружок — каждому из них судьбой уготован особый путь. Кого-то ждет

Сахарный, белый Кремль — сердце России 2020-х, пережившей Красную, Серую и Белую Смуты, закрывшейся от внешнего мира и погруженной в сон. Этим сердцем понемножку владеют все, ведь и у скотницы, и у зэка, и у лилипута есть хотя бы осколок его рафинадной копии, но на самом деле оно никому не принадлежит.

In his new work, the depicted reality itself claims to be a document of the era. For the most incredulous: there is nothing made up here. There is a town where the city-forming enterprise is a prison. There is an orphanage, in the destinies of the inhabit

Seventeen-year-old Molly Peskin-Suso knows all about unrequited love. No matter how many times her twin sister, Cassie, tells her to woman up, Molly can’t stomach the idea of rejection. So she’s careful. Fat girls always have to be careful. Then a cute new girl enters Cassie’s orbit, and for the first time ever, Molly’s cynical twin is a lovesick mess. Meanwhile, Molly's totally not dying of...

Belonging in the immortal company of the great works of literature, Dante Alighieri’s poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of Hell, up the arduous slopes of Purgatory, and on to the glorious realm of Paradise—the sphere of universal harmony and eternal salvation.

She would do anything for Father. That's why she takes care of all her little sisters. That's why she runs end-of-the world drills. That's why she never asks questions. Because Father knows best. Until the day he doesn't. Until the day the government raids the compound and separates Piper from her siblings, from Mother, from the Aunts, from all of Father's followers--even from Caspian, the boy...

Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own. When they land jobs on a ranch in the Salinas Valley, the fulfillment of their dream seems to be within their grasp. But even George cannot guard Lennie from the provocations of a...

Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family with five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homeland almost at the moment of her birth.

‘Speak up for yourself-we want to know what you have to say.’ From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, an outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops. Now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. As time passes, Melinda becomes increasingly...