Many sources of varying degrees of certainty claim that once upon meeting with the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Abraham Lincoln allegedly uttered the phrase: 'This little lady started a great war.' The novel of the American writer Harriet Beecher Stowe very quickly gained worldwide fame and recognition. Written in the nineteenth-century sentimental style of 'female prose,' this book nonetheless...

This edition presents the novel 'The Adolescent.' Along with the novels 'Crime and Punishment', 'Idiot', 'Demons', 'Brothers Karamazov', he composes the so-called Great Five-Book of Dostoevsky. The desire for money and power, the dream of superiority over millions of 'ordinary' people, the problem of fathers and children, the atheism are the dangers for the Russian teenager. Are they...

N.A. Nekrasov is one of the most interesting and controversial figures in the history of Russian poetry. 'A poet passionate for suffering! ..' - this is how Dostoevsky spoke of him. For many, the Nekrasov became a prophet, comforter, leader. He was the main poet of the generation of sixties nihilists, heirs of Bazarov. He offered a new look at the tasks of the poet, new poetic themes. Nekrasov...

'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...

Three sisters trapped by an ancient curse. Three magical objects with the power to change their fate. Will they be enough to break the curse? Or will they lead the sisters even deeper into danger?

The collection includes seven stories by the Russian writer Mikhail Prishvin, who is rightly called the 'singer of Russian nature': 'Lisichkin bread', 'First stand', 'Yarik' and others. Illustrations by Marina Belousova.

A multi award-winning story of friendship and feuds in a remote Armenian mountain village. In an isolated village high in the Armenian mountains, a close-knit community bickers, gossips and laughs. Their only connection to the outside world is an ancient telegraph wire and a perilous mountain road that even goats struggle to navigate. As they go about their daily lives - harvesting crops,...

The book by the classic of children's literature Nikolai Nosov 'The Adventures of Dunno and His Friends' was first published in 1954 and marked the beginning of a trilogy about funny and mischievous kids from the Flower City. The protagonist of the story, Dunno, has the most contradictory qualities, but by nature he is kind and ready to do good deeds. He is quick-witted and brave, and also very...

These nursery rhymes for the little ones are full of recognizable stories. Here are the grandchildren going to their grandmother. Here is a family eating porridge and washing dishes. And this is Mitenka, who does not want to get up. The book is illustrated with live, cheerful pictures by Mikhail Romadin. Komi-Permian folk songs. Retelling by Lev Ivanovich Kuzmin.

Dog was seized by an enormous hand, lifted to a dizzy height, and dunked in a bucket of very cold water. He began to wriggle and groan and cry and choke. . . . Nearly drowned at birth, left for dead in a garbage dump, and hounded by dog catchers. No question: Dog's puppyhood is tough. Alone in the world, he decides it's time to find himself an owner, someone he can love and, of course, train....

Come for a visit in Bear Country with this classic from Stan and Jan Berenstain. Join Mama, Papa, and Brother, as they try and help Sister break a very bad habit . . . biting her nails. Will she manage to get her bad habit under control, or will she end up stuck as a nail nibbler.

M. Yu. Lermontov is the second, after Pushkin, value in Russian literature of the first half of the 19th century. This edition publishes Lermontov's poems of different years, including such generally recognized masterpieces as 'Prisoner of the Caucasus', 'Mtsyri', 'Demon', as well as the novel 'A Hero of Our Time' - one of the pinnacles of Russian prose. Perceived by contemporaries of M. Yu....