Zweig's early story was written in 1913 and was published in the same year, but is published here in the 1925 bookprint version revised by its author, which Zweig has 'shortened by numerous passages that were obviously too 'expressive' from his later point of view,' according to the author Editor Michael Scheffel. Zweig masterfully captured the oppressive atmosphere of the story, in which the...

The Stranger is the debut work of a young writer, a kind of creative manifesto. The concept of absolute freedom is the main postulate of this manifesto. The hero of this story is on trial for a murder he committed for the most stupid of all possible reasons. And this is the truth that the hero is not afraid to throw in the face of his judges, go against everything, forget about all conventions...

The Glass Bead Game is an ultra-aesthetic game which is played by the scholars, creamed off in childhood and nurtured in elite schools, in the province of Castalia. The Master of the Glass Bead Game, Joseph Knecht, holds the most exalted office in Castalia. He personifies the detachment, serenity and aesthetic vision which reward a life dedicated to perfection of the intellect. But can, indeed...

Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own. When they land jobs on a ranch in the Salinas Valley, the fulfillment of their dream seems to be within their grasp. But even George cannot guard Lennie from the provocations of a...

Illustrated by Vladislav Erko. In Ukraininan.

Stefan Zweig based his biography of Marie Antoinette, who became the Queen of France at the age of fifteen, on the correspondence between her and her mother, and her great love the Count Axel von Fersen. Zweig analyzes the chemistry of a woman’s soul from her intimate pleasures to her public suffering as a Queen under the weight of misfortune and history. Zweig describes Marie Antoinette in the...

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) - a famous American poet, novelist, critic, journalist. His influence as a writer and poet on world literature is enormous: it is Charles Baudelaire, French symbolism and almost the entire Russian Silver Age. , the novel 'The Story of Arthur Gordon Pim', as well as a collection of short stories 'The System of Dr. Small and Professor Piria'. The book 'Raven' includes...

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (or, in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local...

According to the plot of the book, Foma Hryhorovych tells the story of how his grandfather was sent with a letter to the queen. On the way, the grandfather met a Cossack, and he confessed to him that he had sold his soul to the devil and that same night will have to pay. Grandfather decides to help him and chats all night, but his sleep overwhelms him and he falls asleep. Waking up, the...

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 sweet celebration of the love between parent and child, Brayden Bunny doesn’t like it when his mommy asks him to wash his ears and clean his room, so he decides to move in with his friends. But every new home he tries is not quite right. Something is missing!

The incomparable Lesya Ukrainka (1871-1913) wrote her masterpiece, the drama-extravaganza 'Forest Song' in distant lands, when she missed her homeland very much. And to my dear Kolodyazhnyi, where 'on a moonlit night I ran alone into the forest and waited there for Mavka to appear to me. I was fascinated by this image for the rest of my life.' It is evident that this longing inspired the...