A.S. Pushkin entered Russian culture not only as a great Poet, but also as a wonderful prose writer and playwright. This volume includes the most significant and well-known prose works of the author, in which he appears as a historian, chronicler, subtle psychologist (expert on the human soul) and an excellent storyteller: 'Arap of Peter the Great', 'Tales of the late Ivan Petrovich Belkin',...

The novel 'Say Raisins' by Vasily Aksyonov is a bright, satirically pointed picture of the Soviet society of the seventies. During the years of Brezhnev's stagnation, it would seem that they were already quite 'herbivorous,' photographers conceived an unp

The surest way to creative immortality is to write from the point of view of eternity. It is from this position that Chingiz Aitmatov, a classic of Russian and Kyrgyz literature, a laureate of prestigious awards, writes his prose. His books - 'And the Day Lasts More Than a Century ...', 'Scaffold' and many others have been translated into dozens of languages. These novels became the property of...

Gwen has a destiny to fulfill, but no one will tell her what it is. She's only recently learned that she is the Ruby, the final member of the time-traveling Circle of Twelve, and since then nothing has been going right. She suspects the founder of the Circle, Count Saint-German, is up to something nefarious, but nobody will believe her. And she's just learned that her charming time-traveling...

Gwyneth Shepherd's sophisticated, beautiful cousin Charlotte has been prepared her entire life for traveling through time. But unexpectedly, it is Gwyneth who in the middle of class takes a sudden spin to a different era! Gwyneth must now unearth the mystery of why her mother would lie about her birth date to ward off suspicion about her ability, brush up on her history, and work with Gideon,...

Can you love someone you can never touch? Stella Grant likes to be in control—even though her totally out of control lungs have sent her in and out of the hospital most of her life. At this point, what Stella needs to control most is keeping herself away from anyone or anything that might pass along an infection and jeopardize the possibility of a lung transplant. Six feet apart. No exceptions.

Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice’s life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice’s grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate, the Hazel Wood, Alice learns how bad her luck can really get: Her mother is stolen away-by a figure who claims to come...

Po mile spedzonym dniu przychodzi czas spania. Kicia Kocia myje zeby i przebiera sie w pizamke. Ale gdy lezy juz w lózeczku, nie moze zasnac. Boi sie ciemnego pokoju. Razem z mama sprawdza, czy aby na pewno w domu nie czai sie jakis potwór.

With unmistakable characters and signature rhymes, Dr. Seuss’s beloved favorite has cemented its place as a children’s classic. Kids will love the terrific tongue-twisters as the list of places to enjoy green eggs and ham gets longer and longer...and they might even learn a thing or two about trying new things! Zielone jajka?Zielone jajka? Co to za bajka? Pelna absurdalnego humoru ksiazeczka...

The classic tale about the elephant Horton and being responsible. In Polish with the original English included in the back as an appendix.