Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin is a poet, prose writer, translator, journalist, publisher, the most prominent representative of sentimentalism in Russian literature, a reformer of the Russian language and a major historiographer. His work became a school for the next generation of Russian writers. It was he who found new words and techniques for revealing the inner world of man, the subtlest...

N.V. Gogol is the greatest Russian writer and playwright. One of the peaks of his work, the most famous of his works is considered to be the comedy 'The Examiner'. Since the first production in 1836, the play has not left the stage of theaters around the world and has served as the basis for numerous film adaptations, and the names of its characters have become common nouns. Gogol's plays...

N.A. Nekrasov is one of the most interesting and controversial figures in the history of Russian poetry. 'A poet passionate for suffering! ..' - this is how Dostoevsky spoke of him. For many, the Nekrasov became a prophet, comforter, leader. He was the main poet of the generation of sixties nihilists, heirs of Bazarov. He offered a new look at the tasks of the poet, new poetic themes. Nekrasov...

The novel MOTHER, one of Gorky’s most popular works, was based on the mass demonstration of 1902 in the city of Sormovo. Hence, an exciting plot based on real events, with a sharp political struggle, secret gatherings, searches, arrests, and the selfless heroism of the protagonist-revolutionary Pavel Vlasov. However, the central image in the novel is Pelageya Nilovna Vlasova, the mother of the...

'Rarely, to such an extent, in such complete equilibrium, were two hard-to-combine elements: sympathy for humanity and artistic feeling,' F.I. Tyutchev admired the Notes of the Hunter. In Notes of the Hunter, Turgenev recreates the thin, colorful material of national life: poetry and prose, light and shadows are intertwined here in unique, bizarre images, and nature turns out to be a necessary...

This edition presents the novel 'The Adolescent.' Along with the novels 'Crime and Punishment', 'Idiot', 'Demons', 'Brothers Karamazov', he composes the so-called Great Five-Book of Dostoevsky. The desire for money and power, the dream of superiority over millions of 'ordinary' people, the problem of fathers and children, the atheism are the dangers for the Russian teenager. Are they...

The work of the famous English writer Jane Austen, the author of elegant and witty novels PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, MANSFIELD-PARK, EMMA, has had a significant impact on the development of English prose of the XIX-XX centuries and has been enjoying increasing popularity among readers for almost two hundred years. This publication publishes the novel SENSE AND SENSITIVITY, known worldwide for its...

The poem 'Odyssey', created by the genius of the legendary epic poet of Ancient Greece Homer, is one of the greatest works of world literature, a creation full of full-blooded life, bright fantasy and poetic brilliance. The dangerous adventures of the cunning and long-suffering Odyssey (he, passionately striving to go home to Ithaca, will have to fight with Poseidon, visit the country of cruel...

The great Goethe conceived his 'Faust' when he was a little over twenty years old, and completed the tragedy a few months before his death. This work was the result of the philosophical and artistic searches of the author - a poet, playwright, prose writer, the greatest scientist of his time, a man of encyclopedic knowledge. The hero of the tragedy, Dr. Johann Faust, lived in the first half of...

Many sources of varying degrees of certainty claim that once upon meeting with the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Abraham Lincoln allegedly uttered the phrase: 'This little lady started a great war.' The novel of the American writer Harriet Beecher Stowe very quickly gained worldwide fame and recognition. Written in the nineteenth-century sentimental style of 'female prose,' this book nonetheless...

Wuthering Heights is Emily Brontë's first and only published novel, written between October 1845 and June 1846, and published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell; Brontë died the following year, aged 30. The decision to publish came after the success of her sister Charlotte's novel, Jane Eyre. After Emily's death, Charlotte edited the manuscript of Wuthering Heights, and arranged for the...

A.S. Pushkin entered Russian culture not only as a great Poet, but also as a wonderful prose writer and playwright. This volume includes the most significant and well-known prose works of the author, in which he appears as a historian, chronicler, subtle psychologist (expert on the human soul) and an excellent storyteller: 'Arap of Peter the Great', 'Tales of the late Ivan Petrovich Belkin',...