Funny poems for children that contain all sorts of harmful advice.

Greg suddenly finds himself dealing with the pressures of boy-girl parties, increased responsibilities, and even the awkward changes that come with getting older—all without his best friend, Rowley, at his side. Can Greg make it through on his own? Or will he have to face the “ugly truth”?

An instructive story of the wonderful children's writer Anatoly Mityaev about the capricious girl Dasha and one day of her life, which started badly but happily ended. This edition reproduces the famous illustrations of a talented Soviet artist Tatiana Eremina. They very accurately convey the bright mood of the book, which the little reader will surely catch. And adult members of the family...

Cute and funny Swedish folk folk songs in a brilliant translation by Irina Tokmakova as if really intertwined a round dance of funny and instructive little stories. The book is illustrated by the famous artist Anatoly Kokorin.

Wuthering Heights is Emily Brontë's first and only published novel, written between October 1845 and June 1846, and published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell; Brontë died the following year, aged 30. The decision to publish came after the success of her sister Charlotte's novel, Jane Eyre. After Emily's death, Charlotte edited the manuscript of Wuthering Heights, and arranged for the...

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...

The beginning of a thrilling new dragon saga-- now in paperback! Clay and his friends have grown up under a mountain, secretly raised by the Talons of Peace to fulfill a mysterious prophecy. The five young dragons are destined to end the war that's been raging between the tribes of Pyrrhia -- but how they'll do this, none of them knows. But not every dragonet wants a destiny. When one of their...

'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...