An adapted text of a popular science fiction novel, supplied with stress marks and a glossary. It is accompanied with exercises, vocabulary lists and illustrations.

Perhaps, in the history of modern world fiction there are not so many works that would remain popular for such a long time. The story served as the basis for Tarkovsky's cult film 'Stalker'; three decades later, an equally cult computer game with the same name and a whole series of stories and novels written using the world of 'Picnic' appeared.

'There was a hole in the ground, and a hobbit lived in the hole.' These words were written by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien on the back of a school exam paper he was checking one hot summer day. And who would have thought that it was from them, like from a magic seed, that one of the most famous works of world literature would grow. This is a fairy tale that captivated both children and adults,...

The second volume in J.R.R. Tolkien's epic adventure THE LORD OF THE RINGS One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them Frodo and his Companions of the Ring have been beset by danger during their quest to prevent the Ruling Ring from falling into the hands of the Dark Lord by destroying it in the Cracks of Doom. They have lost the...

'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: A Tour of the Underwater World' is a classic action-adventure novel by French author Jules Verne. Published in 1870, 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea' has become one of the most widely recognized novels in the science fiction genre. Much alike to the famous at-sea adventure novel 'Moby Dick,' naturalist Dr. Aronnax sets out on an epic conquest to...

Perevod s frantsuzskogo. Seriia: Biblioteka Rossiiskogo Evreiskogo Kongressa. Kniga-dialog.

End of 1995. It is very difficult for the old president to relinquish power - especially when his entourage assures that no one but him can cope. Even lying in a hospital bed after a heart attack, Boris Yeltsin decides to run again. These elections will mark a watershed in the history of Russia. The president's supporters will make every possible and impossible effort to preserve freedom. And...

Essays on the work of a doctor in the province, written by Maxim Osipov from 2006 to 2017, brought him fame. First collected under one cover, they paint a vivid picture of the changes that have taken place in recent years with Russian society and with the author himself, who is looking at the 'city N.' from different sides, but always sympathetic and unbiased. The peculiarity of the author's...

Already during our lifetime discoveries will be made that will allow people to remain forever young. There is no more death. Our children will never die. Welcome to the future. To a world inhabited by forever young, completely healthy, happy people. But w

Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (1809-1852) is a classic of literature. Many of his works are included in the school curriculum, including 'Evenings on a farm near Dikanka' - amazing in its atmosphere and content of the story. It was after the publication of this collection that the writer was noticed in literary circles, and Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin noted the special poetry, gaiety and ease of...

Moomintroll, as you know, spends the whole winter in hibernation - and in this he is no different from any other Moomintroll. But in the spring, waking up, he is not even averse to doing something unusual. For example, climb a mountain in the company of your friends Snufkin and Sniff and find a black cylinder forgotten by someone on top. And it turns out that this is not just a beautiful hat,...

If Mrs Tischbein had known the amazing adventures her son Emil would have in Berlin, she'd never have let him go. Unfortunately, when his seven pounds goes missing on the train, Emil is determined to get it back - and when he teams up with the detectives he meets in Berlin, it's just the start of a marvellous money-retrieving adventure ...A classic and influential story, Emil and the Detectives...