Anton Pavlovich Chekhov is one of the brightest and most outstanding writers of Russian literature, whose contribution to world culture cannot be overestimated. Chekhov never limited himself to a one-sided reflection of human life, but skillfully showed all its versatility and drama, the irreversibility of past events. The writer left the reader the right to act as a kind of co-author,...

Humorous stories of the classics of American literature.

In a small valley on a green meadow is an amazing house, painted with blue paint. In this house lives a family of moomin trolls: Moomin-Mama, Moomin-Papa and Moomin-Troll himself. And even if one day a big company appears on the threshold, everyone will have a place here. In fact, there are a lot of incomprehensible and dangerous things around - natural disasters, magic hats, ant lions ......

After receiving a call from her friend Helen Corning, Nancy agrees to help solve a baffling mystery. Helen's Aunt Rosemary has been living with her mother at the old family mansion, and they have noticed many strange things. They have heard music, thumps, and creaking noises at night, and seen eerie shadows on the walls. Could the house be haunted?

Mikhail Mikhailovich ZOSHCHENKO (1894-1958) has long been a classic of Russian literature. This book contains his best stories for children from the cycles 'Lyolya and Minka', 'Smart Animals', 'Stories about Minka's Childhood', 'Smart and Cunning'. M. Zoshchenko managed to very subtly and delicately combine humor and edification in his stories.

When brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov is murdered, the lives of his sons are changed irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide; Ivan, the intellectual, whose mental tortures drive him to breakdown; the spiritual Alyosha, who tries to heal the family's rifts; and the shadowy figure of their bastard half-brother...

The story is told by a narrator (a lightly fictionalized version of Pushkin's public image), whose tone is educated, worldly, and intimate. The narrator digresses at times, usually to expand on aspects of this social and intellectual world. This allows for a development of the characters and emphasises the drama of the plot despite its relative simplicity. The book is admired for the artfulness...

The Tale of Khoja Nasreddin is a wonderful book that takes pride of place in the treasury of Russian literature, based on the folklore of Central Asia. The adventures of a cheerful, cunning tramp, the hero of many anecdotes, parables, fairy tales, have long gained worldwide fame. Driven by hatred for the greedy rich, fed at the expense of the common people, he uses all sorts of tricks to...

John Steinbeck's cult novel The Grapes of Wrath was first published in America in 1939, received the Pulitzer Prize, and the author himself was later awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. To date, Grapes of Anger are included in many of the curricula of schools and colleges in the United States. During the Great Depression, a family of ruined farmers is forced to leave their home in Oklahoma....