The book contains stories for the children of the modern writer Elena Boroda. These are funny and kind stories about the brothers Dima and Roma, about their parents and friends. They travel together, climb to the top of the mountain, send signals to aliens. The text of the stories is adapted (A2), accompanied by commentary, tasks for reading comprehension and speech development.

It is 1918: the Russian Revolution has just ended, Ukraine is in the midst of civil war, and in Kiev, the two Turbin brothers are preparing to fight for the White Guard in the wake of their beloved mother’s death. Friends charge in from the streets amid an atmosphere of heady chaos, downing vodka, keeling over, taking baths, playing the guitar, falling in love. But the new regime is poised for...

The story-tale 'The Little Prince' is the most famous work of Antoine de Saint-Exupery. The book was first published in 1943, has since been translated into more than 300 languages, and its total circulation exceeds several tens of millions of copies. The magical story of the little prince's travels to distant planets, the story of his amazing acquaintances with the capricious but charming...

The earth is so huge, and there are so many houses on it! Big and small. Beautiful and ugly. New buildings and ruins. And there is also a very tiny house of Carlson, who lives on the roof. Carlson is sure that this is the best house in the world and the best Carlson in the world lives in it.

Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society. Volume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner's towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for nearly a decade. Volume 3 of the Nobel Prize...

'Stories about the Motherland' is a bold, almost impudent book. Perhaps the first attempt to give a new - honest, accurate - description of our country in a long time. Real and false patriotism, living Russia and TV-screen Russia, power and people... Dmitry Glukhovsky takes up the most important, most sensitive topics of our life today and speaks about them in the tone in which political jokes...

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...

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.

And those who are not. Live on is a new book by Narine Abgaryan about the inhabitants of the Armenian town of Berd on the border with Azerbaijan. History of the homeland Manyuni, but at a different time - before the war and after. Berd has everything you need for a happy life - mountains, gardens, cozy houses. Residents still cook kavurma, collect honey, bake bread, weave carpets and raise...

In an epic trilogy, Philip Pullman unlocks the door to a world parallel to our own, but with a mysterious slant all its own. D?mons and winged creatures live side by side with humans, and a mysterious entity called Dust just might have the power to unite the universes--if it isn't destroyed first. Here, the three paperback titles in Pullman's heroic fantasy series are united in one dazzling...

Author of the famous ABC-book presents a reader and recommends it as a continuation of learning how to read and think critically. There are many short texts, poems, proverbs with many questions for contemplating and expanding general knowledge about the world. Book is illustrated with famous reproductions by famous Russian Artists.