Douglas Adams’s mega-selling pop-culture classic sends logic into orbit, plays havoc with both time and physics, offers up pithy commentary on such things as ballpoint pens, potted plants, and digital watches . . . and, most important, reveals the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything.

A reprint of one of the greatest works of the 20th century. Published under the editorship of the expert of the Nabokov Foundation Andrei Babikov, correcting errors noticed and preserving some of the features of Nabokov's spelling, transliteration and punctuation. Now it is a classic of world literature, a novel that no connoisseur of fine and clever prose. The book entered the lists of the...

In this book you will read the short story 'The Fate of a Man' and 'Don Stories'. 'The Fate of Man' (1956-1957) is a poignant story about the times of the Great Patriotic War. One of the first works of Soviet literature, in which the war is shown truthfully and clearly. Captivity, German concentration camps, escape, return to the front, loss of loved ones, difficult post-war times, an attempt...

Perhaps, in the history of modern world fiction there are not so many works that would remain popular for such a long time. The story served as the basis for Tarkovsky's cult film 'Stalker'; three decades later, an equally cult computer game with the same name and a whole series of stories and novels written using the world of 'Picnic' appeared.

M. Yu. Lermontov is the second, after Pushkin, value in Russian literature of the first half of the 19th century. This edition publishes Lermontov's poems of different years, including such generally recognized masterpieces as 'Prisoner of the Caucasus', 'Mtsyri', 'Demon', as well as the novel 'A Hero of Our Time' - one of the pinnacles of Russian prose. Perceived by contemporaries of M. Yu....

Yevgeny Yevtushenko tells about the history of the creation of the Thirteenth Symphony by Dmitry Shostakovich, which rightfully belongs to the great works of the 20th century, as well as the history of his poem 'Babi Yar', published in 'Literaturnaya Gazeta' in 1961 and immediately became an event. Shostakovich's music and Yevtushenko's poems told about the tragedy that happened in 1941 and...

The book includes two of the most famous novels by American writer Mark Twain 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'. Boys and girls have been reading stories about the adventures of two desperate and naughty boys for almost two centuries. Tom and Huck are two good friends. True, they are forbidden to make friends, because Huck is a tramp, well-bred children...

This collection includes two of Dostoevsky's early works - 'Poor People' and 'The Double', which marked the birth of the future great novelist. 'Poor People' is the writer's debut novel.' The touching love story of the petty official Makar Devushkin and Varenka Dobroselova reveals the eternal theme of the 'little man'. Despite the inner beauty and nobility of the soul, they are not able to...

'In the trenches of Stalingrad' (first published in 1946) was not easy for the reader and appeared in print only thanks to the perseverance of Alexander Tvardovsky, but it was from her that the glory of one of the best trends in Russian literature about the Great Patriotic War - 'lieutenant prose' began. Simple and humane, largely autobiographical, full of precise details and expressive...

'There was a hole in the ground, and a hobbit lived in the hole.' These words were written by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien on the back of a school exam paper he was checking one hot summer day. And who would have thought that it was from them, like from a magic seed, that one of the most famous works of world literature would grow. This is a fairy tale that captivated both children and adults,...

An audacious revision of the stories of Faust and Pontius Pilate, The Master and Margarita is recognized as one of the essential classics of modern Russian literature. The novel’s vision of Soviet life in the 1930s is so ferociously accurate that it could not be published during its author’s lifetime and appeared only in a censored edition in the 1960s. Its truths are so enduring that its...

'Stories about the Motherland' is a bold, almost impudent book. Perhaps the first attempt to give a new - honest, accurate - description of our country in a long time. Real and false patriotism, living Russia and TV-screen Russia, power and people... Dmitry Glukhovsky takes up the most important, most sensitive topics of our life today and speaks about them in the tone in which political jokes...