Ivan Drach (1936-2018) is a recognized leader of the sixties, who, with the inspiration of a juggler, twisted into one poetic orbit the golden bulb, and the theory of relativity, and synchrofazotrons wailing like lions, and washed pants, and the Communist Party, and a touching old lady, and Lenin's fanfare, and the lost cinematogram, and Chernobyl, and Rukh, and spirit, and Stanley Kunitz, who...

The book by Natalka Bilotserkivets, one of the most important contemporary Ukrainian poets, includes poems from all her collections: ‘Ballad of the Unconquered’ (1976), ‘In the Country of My Heart’ (1979), ‘Underground Fire’ (1984), ‘November’ ( 1989), ‘Allergy’ (1999), ‘Central Hotel’ (2004). This is the author's most complete selection to date.

Bi-lingual, parallel text edition of the Great Gatsby.

Helena Pelletier has a loving husband, two beautiful daughters, and a business that fills her days. But she also has a secret: she is the product of an abduction. Her mother was kidnapped as a teenager by her father and kept in a remote cabin in the marsh

On a rainy November day, police detectives Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von Bodenstein are summoned to a mysterious traffic accident: a woman has fallen from a pedestrian bridge onto a car driving underneath. According to a witness, the woman may have been pu

The crime story takes place in 1992, just after the political transformation in former Czechoslovakia. Commissioner Krauz ("very young, cheeky, quick and inexperienced, but promising") investigates a murder. The clues lead to the former communist politica

The cult novel by George Orwell, one of the main anti-utopias of the 20th century. A creepy and frightening text that has not lost its relevance even 70 years later. For the first time, 1984 is published in Russian in a new, complete, uncensored and cuts, translation by Daria Tselovalnikova.

The Stranger is the debut work of a young writer, a kind of creative manifesto. The concept of absolute freedom is the main postulate of this manifesto. The hero of this story is on trial for a murder he committed for the most stupid of all possible reasons. And this is the truth that the hero is not afraid to throw in the face of his judges, go against everything, forget about all conventions...

»Schach! Schach dem König!« An Bord eines Passagierdampfers von New York nach Buenos Aires wird Schach gespielt. Was als harmloser Zeitvertreib wohlhabender Reisender beginnt, ruft in Dr. B. traumatische Erinnerungen an seine Zeit als Gefangener der Gestapo in Österreich wach.

Rainer Maria Rilke hinterließ seiner Nachwelt ein bedeutendes Werk aus Prosa, Lyrik, Essays, Briefen und Tagebüchern, darunter so bekannte Gedichte wie Der Panther oder Das Karussell oder unvergessliche ins Wort gehobene Gesten wie etwa »Wie soll ich meine Seele halten, dass / sie nicht an deine rührt?«. Diese Auswahl aus seinem umfangreichen lyrischen Werk ermöglicht viele Entdeckungen und...

Ein einzigartiges Panorama des Berliner Lebens in der Nazizeit: Hans Falladas eindringliche Darstellung des Widerstands der kleinen Leute avancierte rund 60 Jahre nach ihrer Entstehung zum überragenden Publikumserfolg in Deutschland und der Welt.

In gut zwei Wochen, bis zum 21. September 1944, schrieb Fallada seinen persönlichsten Roman nieder. Zu der Zeit lebte er auf richterlichen Beschluss für dreieinhalb Monate in der Strelitzer Landesanstalt.