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.

Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch - 'Scout' - returns home to Maycomb, Alabama from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise’s homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town, and the people dearest to...

Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naïve epileptic Prince Myshkin - known as the 'idiot' - pays a visit to his distant relative General Yepanchin and proceeds to charm the General and his family. But his life is thrown into turmoil when he chances on a photograph of the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna. Utterly infatuated, he soon finds himself caught up in a love...

Книги знаменитой на весь мир английской писательницы Джейн Остин, среди почитателей которой были В. Скотт, В. Вулф, С.Моэм, Д. Б. Пристли, Р. Олдингтон, уже давно снискали себе славу и читательскую любовь. Перу Остин принадлежат такие изящные и искрометные романы, как «Гордость и предубеждение», «Мэнсфилд-парк», «Эмма», «Нортенгерское аббатство» и другие. В них, как отмечал С. Моэм, «ее...

В настоящем издании представлен роман «Подросток». Наряду с романами «Преступление и наказание», «Идиот», «Бесы», «Братья Карамазовы» он составляет так называемое великое пятикнижие Достоевского.Желание денег и власти, мечта о превосходстве над миллионами «обыкновенных», проблема отцов и детей, богоборчество – вот опасности для русского подростка. Преодолимы ли они и что победит в итоге: бунт...

В настоящем издании представлены знаменитые романы, которые составили славу одного из интереснейших писателей ХХ столетия Фрэнсиса Скотта Фицджеральда. Он стал рупором идей и выразителем душевных настроений молодежи 1920-х. Устами героя публикуемого здесь романа — «По эту сторону рая» (1920) — он объявил, что пришло поколение, для которого «все боги умерли, все войны отгремели, всякая вера...

In the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. With a sharp, probing imagination, James Baldwin's now-classic narrative delves into the mystery of loving and creates a moving, highly controversial story of death and passion that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart.

Sasha Filipenko had his own reader immediately - after the success of The Former Son and the next two novels. 'Bullying', published by 'Znamen' even before the book was published, according to the electronic portal 'Journal Hall', became in 2016 the most popular text of all Russian thick literary magazines. This means that your reader understands what to expect from the Red Cross. He will...

This book is about the bitter and funny world of people who live without noticing time. People who are not afraid to fly and know how to find something funny even in the tragic. A world of old people and children, adults and those who have lost their faith, but have not despaired. The world of people who are forever stuck in that dimension where dreams will come true someday.

Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. But his real problem is not the enemy-it is his own army, which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Yet if Yossarian makes any attempt to excuse...