He has always been popular, and his world literary status is now recognized: the author Hans Fallada has been completely rediscovered in recent years. It is time to take a new approach to his biography and to evaluate the rich, previously unexplored material.

It presents a richly detailed portrait of life in Berlin under the Nazis and tells the sweeping saga of one working-class couple who decides to take a stand when their only son is killed at the front. With nothing but their grief and each other against the awesome power of the Reich, they launch a simple, clandestine resistance campaign that soon has an enraged Gestapo on their trail, and a...

The Berlin Wall Memorial Center on Bernauer Strasse is the main memorial site of divided Germany, located in the center of the German capital. Alongside the exhibit at the former border strip, a permanent exhibition entitled ‘1961 - 1989. The Berlin Wall’ was opened in November 2014, providing information about the political and historical context.

This selection from his extensive lyrical work enables many discoveries and allows you to experience how Rilke ‘made the German poem perfect for the first time’ (Robert Musil). With a compact biography of the author.

Set in a boarding school in a remote area of the Habsburg Empire at the turn of the last century, The Confusions of Young Torless is an intense study of an adolescent's psychological development as he struggles to come to terms with his conflicting emotions. Through his relationship with two other boys Torless is led into sadistic and sexual encounters with a third pupil which both repel and...

His short story collection Drei Frauen (Three Women) -- consisting of Grigia, The Portuguese Lady, and Tonka -- was published in 1924. Musil in these tales explores Europe on the verge between civilization and brutality, the modern and pre-modern, nationalism and humanism, and between ‘precision and soul,’ to use Musil's own phrase. In encounters with the three women of the title, each male...

Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement, completed in Brazilian exile and sent off to his American publisher only days before his suicide in 1942. It is the only story in which Zweig looks at Nazism, and he does so with characteristic emphasis on the psychological.

The fourth book in the beloved Harry Potter series, now illustrated in glorious full color by award-winning artist Jim Kay. With over 150 illustrations!

The fifth book in the beloved, bestselling Harry Potter series, now illustrated in brilliant full color.

The third book in the bestselling Harry Potter series, now illustrated in glorious full color by award-winning artist Jim Kay!

Training tests of the III certification level are part of the official set of materials of the Russian system of testing citizens of foreign countries in the Russian language. The book includes two versions of tests at this level. When developing options, the experience gained over several years of testing foreigners was taken into account. The proposed materials have been tested at the Faculty...

The dictionary includes 868 phraseological homonyms of different types. Each dictionary entry contains an interpretation of a phraseological unit, a type of categorical meaning, grammatical, stylistic characteristics, etc. Quotes from literary texts, the press, and colloquial speech are used as illustrations. There are no analogues to this dictionary in modern lexicography