The Good Soldier Schweik is the story beginning in Prague with news of the assassination in Sarajevo that precipitates World War I. Schweik displays such enthusiasm about faithfully serving the Austrian Emperor in battle that no one can decide whether he is merely an imbecile or is craftily undermining the war effort. However, he is arrested by a member of the secret police after making some...

Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are probably the most famous boys in the whole wide world - kind and sincere, savvy and reckless, charming, like childhood itself, easily find the key to any heart. This is how Tom and Huck created the pen - or rather, the typewriter - of the great American writer Mark Twain. We invite our readers to plunge into a wonderful world full of adventures, mysteries...

Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society. Volume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner's towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for nearly a decade. Volume 3 of the Nobel Prize...

Inspired by Jack Kerouac's adventures with Neal Cassady, On the Road tells the story of two friends whose cross-country road trips are a quest for meaning and true experience. Written with a mixture of sad-eyed naivete and wild ambition and imbued with Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz, On the Road is the quintessential American vision of...

Mark Twain's first historical novel, The Prince and the Pauper, is a classic adventure of mistaken identity that champions social justice. Set in 1547, it tells the story of two young boys who were born on the same day and are identical in appearance: Tom Canty, a pauper who lives with his abusive, alcoholic father in Offal Court off Pudding Lane in London, and Edward VI of England, son of...

The famous American writer O. Henry (William Sidney Porter) is the author of popular short stories, a master of original plot twists, colorful dialogues and stunning endings. The writer's creative legacy consists of ten collections, or over six hundred short stories, which are something like a humorous encyclopedia of American life at the beginning of the twentieth century. However, O. Henry's...

The pages of the book will revive the St. Petersburg streets of the 19th century, you will get acquainted with the customs of the inhabitants of St. Petersburg. And quite in the spirit of Nikolai Gogol, you will learn about the life of bureaucratic Petersburg and the adventures of Mr. Golyadkin. See the big picture of an ideal humanity and moral decline among people.

The young companion of a capricious elderly American woman becomes the wife of the imposing English aristocrat Maximilian de Winter, tormented by secret sadness, and arrives with him at his Manderley family estate. In a huge gloomy mansion, the people, the walls, and, it seems, the air itself remind the new owner of her deceased predecessor, the beautiful and sophisticated Rebecca de Winter....

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...

The chronological structure of the stories written between 1916 and 1939 conveys a precise picture of Joseph Roth's literary development: the arc of his storytelling art spans from the early work The Preferred Pupil to The Legend of the Holy Drinker, »one of the most beautiful legends written in the 20th century became« (Marcel Reich-Ranicki), to the novella Der Leviathan, Roth's last...

The original version of the great anti-war novel was confiscated by the Russian secret service in 1949 and has now been found in Russian archives. Found, edited and provided with a documentary appendix by Carsten Gansel. A book, back from 70 years as a prisoner of war.

The painter and poet Fritz Schramm welcomes young people with artistic ambitions to his attic apartment. A friendship develops between him and the music student Ernst Winter, which is put to the test when Ernst falls in love with the opera singer Lanna. Remarque's debut novel: a touching portrait of the artist as a young man and the beginning of a great career as a writer.