The Sound and the Fury is set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. The novel centers on the Compson family, former Southern aristocrats who are struggling to deal with the dissolution of their family and its reputation. The novel is separated into four distinct sections. The first, April 7, 1928, is written from the perspective of Benjamin Benjy Compson, a 33-year-old man with severe mental...

Russian Grammar in Pictures for Beginners. The systematized illustrated guide on Russian grammar for students who begin to learn Russian. Can be used both in groups and for self-study. Contains 270 pictures with words. Each of the tables is accompanied with methodical recommendations (in Russian) on how to better use them. Level: B1.

The eight stories that make up Octaedro - a figure as geometric as it is mysterious, as perfect as it is reticent - mix certain social and political content that Cortázar had addressed in Libro de Manuel (1973) with his most recurrent themes: love, dreams, illness, death, the threshold between the everyday and the fantastic.

Aldous Huxley's lifelong concern with the dichotomy between passion and reason finds its fullest expression both thematically and formally in his masterpiece Point Counter Point. By presenting a vision of life in which diverse aspects of experience are observed simultaneously, Huxley characterizes the symptoms of ‘the disease of modern man' in the manner of a composer—themes and characters are...

Discuss Global Issues and Repeat Russian Grammar. Manual with texts on contemporary issues, exercises, and grammar comments. The topics include: problems of big cities; migration of population; intellectual emigration; issues of demography; globalization and anti-globalists; social inequality - rich and poor; middle class; unemployment; issues of higher education; science and morals; crisis of...

This reader contains works from modern Russian authors, all of which are very significant in the context of modern Russian literature. All of the texts are accompanied with lexical, stylistic, grammatical and literary commentaries, which give necessary information for activating the memory. Each story has dictionary definitions for difficult words, with example sentences for the most...

It is a pseudo-autobiographical postmodernist prose poem by Russian writer and satirist Venedikt Erofeev. Written between 1969 and 1970 this book was passed around in samizdat for a long time. The story follows an alcoholic intellectual, Venya (or Venichka), as he travels by a suburban train on a 125 km (78 mi) journey from Moscow to visit his beautiful beloved and child in Petushki, a city...

The adapted text of the popular novel. Includes comments, exercises, keys, glossary, illustrations.

The last, most voluminous and one of the most famous novels by F. M. Dostoevsky addresses the reader to timeless moral and philosophical questions about sin, retribution, compassion and mercy.