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...

With care for your eyes! Large-font edition for easy reading. The Count of Monte Cristo, one of the most popular novels by Alexandre Dumas, is a stunning success with readers. The author took its plot from the archives of the Parisian police. The real life of the shoemaker François Picot, who became the prototype of Edmond Dantes, was transformed under the pen of a real artist into a gripping...

What is the power of the mighty boas over the naive, simple-minded rabbits based on? On fear - blinding, irrational, paralyzing fear. What is the idea of a furiously brave rabbit who tried to throw off this bloodthirsty power based on? On a simple denial of fear - after all, how can you intimidate those who, in principle, have nothing to lose? But why are the rabbits even more dissatisfied with...

A tragic incident pushes him to choose a profession - he becomes a doctor. Only again everything is like many others: medical school - private clinic - devoted wife...Ogarev accepts the rules of the game of an adult, but... life again presents him with something unexpected - love for a strange girl, for whom the main thing is freedom from everything and everyone, including from life itself...’

Lazar Lindt, a brilliant scientist and a big child, ‘a lawless comet in a circle of calculating luminaries’, is the center of the infernal personal stories of three extraordinary women. The childless Marusya, the wife of his older friend, will fall in love with a funny young man who appeared on the threshold of her house in 1918, not at all filial love, but it will remain his secret. After the...

The novel is based on real events. One and a half thousand kilometers of railway were laid by prisoners from the northern Urals to the lower reaches of the Yenisei through the taiga and swamps. The ‘Great Stalinist Highway’ turned out to be unnecessary as soon as its ideological inspirer died, but over four years, enormous resources were thrown into its construction, the most valuable of which...

Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1900, when Mann was only twenty-five, has become a classic of modem literature -- the story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern Germany. With consummate skill, Mann draws a rounded picture of middle-class life: births and christenings; marriages, divorces, and deaths; successes and failures. These commonplace occurrences,...

With this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Thomas Mann rose to the front ranks of the great modern novelists, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. The Magic Mountain takes place in an exclusive tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps–a community devoted to sickness that serves as a fictional microcosm for Europe in the days before the First World War. To this hermetic and...

Strange, almost magical, things are afoot in Lviv. Seagulls circle overhead while the passing breeze carries a briny whiff, even though the coast is far away. A ragtag group of aging hippies gather around a mysterious grave in Lychakiv Cemetery. Among them are an ex-KGB officer and the old subversive he once spied upon. Soon, Captain Ryabtsev and Alik Olisevych band together to uncover the...