The author is a well-known literary critic and his book represents a cycle of the sketches showing the dramatic nature of creative destiny of the largest Russian writers, whose peak creativity was during the Soviet era. The author includes examples of their best writings. He includes discussions of Mayakovsky, Babel, Mandelshtam, Akhmatova, Sholokov, Pasternak and others. The book is written...

All vocabulary concerning the topic City is presented in exercises and crossword puzzles.

Manual for building writing skills (business documents, personal letters, papers, and essays). This manual can be used for preparation for the II level test.

The book introduces to biography and scientific discoveries of Zh.I.Alferov, the Nobel Prize winner of the year 2000 on physics. Comments. Test exercises. Keys. Dictionary. Illustrations.

A collection of essays devoted to narrating and comprehension of historic processes.

The most cruel, the most nervous and the most sincere story about human's madness and addiction to roulette.

Book contains poems that everyone knows as poems, or as songs, but not many people know who wrote them and when. This editions provides reference for those poems and their authors.

Texts, dictionaries, explanations, comments - all for easy comprehension and self-study.

Mass literature of XX century (from Verbitskaia and Artsybashev to Akunin and Marinina). Development and reflection of social problems.

Author of the famous ABC-book presents a reader and recommends it as a continuation of learning how to read and think critically. There are many short texts, poems, proverbs with many questions for contemplating and expanding general knowledge about the world. Book is illustrated with famous reproductions by famous Russian Artists.

The goal of this textbook is to develop speaking and writing skills, acquiring genres of spoken and written languages and improvement of spelling and grammar. Advanced level.

Dictionary of aphorisms about women, happiness and love. At the end of the dictionary biographical and literary record for all of the authors of aphorisms is provided.