The emotional mood of Mandelstam's lyrics is full of what critics called 'mental discomfort'. And the accentuated simplicity of everyday trifles, from which he built his poetic reality, only emphasizes the longing and anxiety of an outstanding person who

Osip Mandelstam - one of the greatest Russian poets of the twentieth century, essayist, translator, literary critic. His tragic fate was a reflection of the catastrophic events in the history of Russia. From student studies and the first publications of t

In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling offers up equal parts danger and delight - and any number of dragons, house-elves, and death-defying challenges. Now 14, her orphan hero has only two more weeks with his Muggle relatives before returning to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Yet one night a vision harrowing enough to make his lightning-bolt-shaped scar burn has Harry...

The Cat in the Hat can read in purple and in brown, in a circle and even upside down! Can he teach Young Cat to do the same? A perfect stepping stone for emerging readers to show off their skills, this book will show kids all the wonderful ways and wonderful things you can read.

A darker book than any in the series thus far with a level of sophistication belying its genre, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince moves the series into murkier waters and marks the arrival of Rowling onto the adult literary scene. While she has long been praised for her cleverness and wit, the strength of Book 6 lies in her subtle development of key characters, as well as her carefully...

In this third installment in the projected seven-volume series, Sirius Black, imprisoned for killing 13 people with one curse, escapes from Azkaban. As he heads for Hogwarts, the chilling Dementors who trail him quickly descend upon the school.

Each assembly task is presented graphically and looks like a puzzle. Therefore, performing these tasks turns into a game in which children learn to see general schemes and stages of solving various types of problems, develop logic and train computational skills. This form eliminates the need to explain educational material to children - it is learned intuitively. The author offers readers to...

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...

This beautiful book contains six fairy tales by Josef Capek, a famous Czech artist, graphic artist, and book illustrator. Once, following the example of his younger brother Karel, the famous Czech writer, Josef took and composed fairy tales about a dog and a cat who lived in a house on the edge of the forest. These simple, kind and sweet stories immediately fell in love with all the kids,...

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.

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,...