The amusing shameful deeds of the two good-for-nothings: in 1865 Wilhelm Busch wrote his picture story »Max and Moritz«, which was to bring him worldwide fame.

Few of the writers managed to touch the souls of readers with the skill of their words in the way that A.I. Kuprin. Kind, touching stories imbued with sincere love and compassion will resonate in the hearts of readers and leave no room for callousness, cruelty and indifference in them.

Their best hope lies with Cress, a girl trapped on a satellite since childhood who's only ever had her netscreens as company. All that screen time has made Cress an excellent hacker. Unfortunately, she's being forced to work for Queen Levana, and she's just received orders to track down Cinder and her handsome accomplice.

'Arc de Triomphe' is a poignant love story against all odds, love that brings pain, but also gives endless joy. The scene is Paris on the eve of World War II. The hero is a refugee from Germany, without documents, hiding from both the French and the Nazis, a surgeon who saves human lives. The heroine is an Italian actress, surrounded by fans, quick-tempered, like all artists, beautiful and...

This raid is full of dangers: the Khius planetship has never been tested in such severe atmospheric conditions before, the anomalous geological deposit Golconda Uranium is inaccessible to transport, and the mystery of the death of previous expeditions cannot but disturb brave explorers.

The book includes works about the Great Patriotic War - the story ‘And the dawns here are quiet...’ and the novel ‘Not on the lists’.

The book of the Soviet biologist, writer and popularizer of science for children Igor Akimushkin 'Traces of Unseen Animals' will tell about the amazing, previously unknown to science animals that man managed to meet. Some species are indeed recognized as new, while the existence of others is questioned.

The novel 'Oblomov' is the pinnacle of creativity of I. A. Goncharov. The writer showed an amazing and paradoxical type of Russian man, making his name a household name. The novel received a mixed response from critics. N. A. Dobroliubov saw in Oblomov a symbol of the inertia of Russia and a sign of the times.

Incredible events are taking place in the Paris Zoo: a one-eyed Polar Wolf and a little African boy silently tell each other stories, one more amazing than the other. In two pupils - a boy's and a wolf's - flash, replacing each other, the snow-covered Tundra, yellow, gray and green Africa. Somewhere in the past, gunshots are heard, screams are heard, the noise of propellers and the howl of...

War. Terrible and hateful. Ernst Graeber - an ordinary German soldier - for the first time after two years of war goes on vacation for three weeks. Three priceless weeks - time to live! He leaves to be at war again - in a city where endless bombing. In the city, where residents are afraid to breathe once again, where no one can ever be trusted with their thoughts and feelings, otherwise -...