A sweeping novel that takes us from the elegantly appointed mansions of Manila to the secluded private islands in the Sulu Sea, from a kidnapping at Hong Kong’s most elite private school to a surprise marriage proposal at an Indian palace, caught on camera by the telephoto lenses of paparazzi, Kevin Kwan's hilarious, gloriously wicked new novel reveals the long-buried secrets of Asia's most...

Fairy tales do not end with us and will never end. Over time, the texts get better, and there are more authors, and in general everything is just beginning. Always, every day, at any moment, everything is just beginning, but you probably didn’t know. No illustrations. newspaper paper.

The 1930s, the times of Stalinist repressions. A young man sentenced to 25 years for love of his homeland escapes from the stage echelon of the NKVD, which transports exhausted and desperate people to a slow death in the Gulag camps. A townsman, an aircraft design engineer, finds himself in a forest thicket teeming with predators, without a map, weapons, tools, warm clothes or even food.

Hartley Staples, near-graduate of middle school, is grappling with the fact that his older brother has run away from home, when he finds a handmade postcard that fascinates him. And soon he spots another. Despite his losing interest in pretty much everything since Jackson ran away, Hartley finds himself searching for cards in his small town at every opportunity, ignoring other responsibilities,...

Few of the writers managed to touch the souls of readers with the skill of their words in the way that A.I. Kuprin. Kind, touching stories imbued with sincere love and compassion will resonate in the hearts of readers and leave no room for callousness, cruelty and indifference in them.

The book includes works about the Great Patriotic War - the story ‘And the dawns here are quiet...’ and the novel ‘Not on the lists’.

Cinder, the star of the Lunar Chronicles, is getting married! She and Emperor Kai have made it to their big day - now all Cinder has to do is show up and say 'I do.' But it's not so easy when there are twists and turns and obstacles along the way, and you, the reader, are in control of her fate, along with the many friends and strangers she meets on this adventure. Can you and Cinder make it to...

Discover something new from Hans Fallada: Some of the anecdotes, reports, stories and speeches collected here, which range from the mid-1920s to his death in 1947, are little known or have not yet been published. They reveal the extent to which the author develops a unique feeling for social problems, sensitively observes reality and finds artistic means to design worldly stories with just a...

The Brothers Grimm 'watched the people in the mouth' and faithfully wrote down what the fairytale woman said. This is how many people imagine fairy tales to be. It wasn't like that. The Grimms often intervened radically in the texts, smoothed them out, rebuilt them and expanded them.

Kaffeehaus-Fruehling, the Vienna reading book published by Helmut Peschina, shows the bravura feuilletonistic beginnings of Joseph Roth.

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