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

2033 year. The whole world lies in ruins. Humanity is almost completely destroyed. Moscow has become a ghost town, poisoned by radiation and inhabited by monsters. The few surviving people are hiding in the Moscow metro - the largest anti-nuclear bomb shelter on earth. Its stations turned into city-states, and darkness reigns in the tunnels and horror dwells. Artem, a resident of VDNH, has to...

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...

Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world where the only thing of value is the 'spice' melange, a drug capable of extending life and enhancing consciousness. Coveted across the known universe, melange is a prize worth killing for....When House Atreides is betrayed, the destruction of Paul's...

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...

Every time a promising villain appears, Saitama beats the snot out of Æem with one punch! Can he finally find an opponent who can go toe-to-toe with him and give his life some meaning? Or is he doomed to a life of superpowered boredom?

Maxim Kammerer is a young amateur space explorer from Earth, regarded as a failure by his friends and relatives because this occupation is not considered to be a serious pursuit. The novel starts when he accidentally discovers an unexplored planet Saraksh inhabited by a humanoid race. The atmospheric conditions on Saraksh are such that the inhabitants believe that they live inside a sphere. The...

Fedor Fedorovich Sviridov is a very successful and successful person, but terribly lonely. Having lost almost everything overnight - the house, the family where his beloved daughter remained - he takes in an orphaned dog named Apelsinych. And then two loneliness met and selflessly fell in love with each other. But a charming flutist appears in the life of Fyodor Fyodorovich..

In this book, everything is very ordinary, and at the same time, everything is amazing. Ordinary guys go to school, do their homework, play, sometimes they get deuces. And suddenly they awaken such feelings that they had no idea about. An ordinary girl becomes the most beautiful in the world, and because of an ordinary boy, she does such desperate things that she is compared to a wild dingo dog...

The book contains the libretto of the scandalous opera 'Children of Rosenthal', new stories, screenplays.

The collection 'Normal History' includes articles and essays by Vladimir Sorokin, written and published in the 2010s. In non-fiction prose, the author does not change his favorite topics: food and drink as manifestations of a national character, Moscow an