The novel The Idiot (1868) was conceived and written by Dostoevsky in Switzerland, the homeland of the great enlightener Rousseau, and therefore it is appropriate to recall his contemporary Voltaire, the author of The Innocent, a book that was one of the first attempts to show the 'ideal person' in this imperfect world. 'The main idea ... - wrote Dostoevsky about his novel, - is to portray a...

Jane Eyre follows the emotions and experiences of its eponymous heroine, including her growth to adulthood and her love for Mr. Rochester, the Byronic master of fictitious Thornfield Hall. In its internalisation of the action—the focus is on the gradual unfolding of Jane's moral and spiritual sensibility, and all the events are coloured by a heightened intensity that was previously the domain...

The Adventures of Oliver Twist is the second novel of the great English writer Charles Dickens, which he began at the time when he had not even managed to completely print the posthumous notes of the Pickwick Club that brought him fame. The fascinating and touching story of the misfortunes of the little orphan Oliver Twist, despite the nearly two hundred years that have passed since its...

The New York Times best-selling series that inspired the international hit videogame The Witcher. The Wizard's Guild has been shattered by a coup, and in the uproar Geralt was seriously injured. The witcher is supposed to be a guardian of the innocent, a protector of those in need, a defender against powerful and dangerous monsters that prey on men in dark times. But now that dark times have...

'The Fall of the House of Usher' describes the final hours of a family tormented by tragedy and the legacy of the past.

The novel 'They Stole Us. A History of Crimes' is a new generation detective story. Honest, clever investigators do not work in it, a class that has practically disappeared from us. This is a story in which victims do not want an investigation, and there is a reason for this. But what kind of reason is this, readers themselves will understand by the end of the novel: after all, in each of us is...

Jules Verne, creator of the fantasy-adventure novel genre, is one of the most widely read French authors, whom few other writers are ahead of in terms of the number of reprints. Vern's heroes conquer forests, deserts, the depths of the world's oceans, discover the secrets of space and plunge into the bowels of the earth. Of course, over a century and a half, science has mastered many of the...

Lyudmila Ulitskaya was repeatedly called a very attentive witness of the era, its tenacious observer and interpreter. Perhaps most of all this applies to the novel 'The Green Tent'. A novel about the generation of those who had to grow up during the thaw, choose their fate in the sixties, pay their bills in the seventies and beyond ... as it turns out, everyone is different. A kaleidoscope of...

Shay, one of the rare survivors of the epidemic sweeping the UK, has surrendered herself to the Army because she believes she's a carrier of the deadly disease. Along with other survivors, she unwillingly becomes a test subject in an effort to find a cure. When the lab where she's being held is attacked, Shay and a few others escape--with the help of Dr. Alex Cross, Kai's hated stepfather and...

Shay has left Kai once again by following Alex to his Multiverse compound. Her goal is to find the real Callie, but Shay discovers that the younger girl has no memory of her past. Their hope is to leave the community. While Shay pretends to be a devoted follower, Alex makes his own plans to use Shay to spread the epidemic he caused with his dark matter experiments. The survivors will be only...