In 1845, Thoreau moved to a cabin that he built with his own hands along the shores of Walden Pond in Massachusetts. Shedding the trivial ties that he felt bound much of humanity, Thoreau reaped from the land both physically and mentally, and pursued truth in the quiet of nature. In Walden, he explains how separating oneself from the world of men can truly awaken the sleeping self. Thoreau...

Arthur Schopenhauer's Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung is one of the most important philosophical works of the nineteenth century, the basic statement of one important stream of post-Kantian thought. It is without question Schopenhauer's greatest work. Conceived and published before the philosopher was 30 and expanded 25 years later, it is the summation of a lifetime of thought.

The journal for the Union of Russian Writers. Each monthly issues includes new fiction, poetry and diffferent topics.

'A poet in Russia is more than a poet' - these winged lines from the poem 'Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station' by Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko, the famous poet of the 'sixties', could become an epigraph to his work. A rebel, a dreamer, an orator and a tribune, he praised the poetry that rushed 'into the attack of the streets', and was one of those whose creativity was a breath of freedom...

Yevgeny Yevtushenko tells about the history of the creation of the Thirteenth Symphony by Dmitry Shostakovich, which rightfully belongs to the great works of the 20th century, as well as the history of his poem 'Babi Yar', published in 'Literaturnaya Gazeta' in 1961 and immediately became an event. Shostakovich's music and Yevtushenko's poems told about the tragedy that happened in 1941 and...

The book of the famous Russian writer Leonid Panteleev (real name Aleksey Ivanovich Eremeev) includes fairy tales, as well as stories about children - 'Honest Word', 'The Letter' You ',' Coward 'and others that have long become classics and occupy a worthy place in golden fund of children's literature.

Pudding the Panda makes everyone smile at Edinburgh Zoo. But what would make her truly happy is a family to take care of - like her heroine, Mary Poppins. Meanwhile, Callum is having a hard time at home. His parents keep arguing, his sister is annoying and his ninth birthday gift is a certificate for an 'adopted' panda when all he wanted was Lego. Then by a twist of fate, the unbelievable...

Shakespeare's sonnets are the highest standard of 'high poetry'. Literary historians have been arguing about them for several centuries now, trying to solve the mystery of the mysterious 'dark lady' and the young friend of the great poet, to whom they are dedicated. Many books, scientific and artistic, have been written about the possible history of the creation of sonnets, and several films...

Double-sided map of highways in the center of Moscow. Format 690x480mm, folded 135x240mm. Within the Garden Ring scale 1:15000 Within the Third Transport Ring 1:23000 The map shows: administrative districts, highways, the road network is shown in detail. The map is accompanied by a street index.

In its opening paragraphs, a successful journalist and Holocaust survivor steps off a New York City curb and into the path of an oncoming taxi. Consequently, most of Wiesel's masterful portrayal of one man's exploration of the historical tragedy that befell him, his family, and his people transpires in the thoughts, daydreams, and memories of the novel's narrator. Torn between choosing life or...

This is a book in which Valentin Kataev cites episodes from his own biography, paints a panorama of Russian literary life in the twenties of the twentieth century in broad masks and shares many details about many famous writers and poets whom he met during his long and eventful life. Among the heroes of the book - naturally, under recognizable pseudonyms - are Vladimir Mayakovsky, Yuri Olesha,...