'In the trenches of Stalingrad' (first published in 1946) was not easy for the reader and appeared in print only thanks to the perseverance of Alexander Tvardovsky, but it was from her that the glory of one of the best trends in Russian literature about the Great Patriotic War - 'lieutenant prose' began. Simple and humane, largely autobiographical, full of precise details and expressive...

Charles Dickens’ Klassiker in einer modernen Neuübersetzung von Hans-Christian Oeser, die dem Geist des Originals wunderbar treu bleibt! Die bekannte Weihnachtserzählung gehört zum Fest einfach dazu und damit die berührende Botschaft: Weihnachten, das ist das Fest der Liebe und Menschlichkeit.

Der Landvermesser K. kommt in einem winterlich stillen Dorf an. Sein Ziel: Das nahe und doch unerreichbare Schloss. Tiefer und tiefer verirrt sich K. im labyrinthischen Verwaltungsapparat des Schlosses und dem undurchsichtigen Beziehungsgeflecht im Dorf, bis nicht nur die Absichten der Dorfgemeinde, sondern auch seine eigenen immer fragwürdiger erscheinen. Das Schloss wurde Franz Kafkas letzter...

»Du bist die Aufgabe. Kein Schüler weit und breit.« – Diesen und 108 weitere Aphorismen notiert Kafka während eines Kuraufenthalts bei seiner Schwester Ottla im böhmischen Zürau. In rätselhafter Mehrdeutigkeit legen sie Zeugnis ab von Kafkas existentieller Selbstbefragung. Neben den Zürauer Aphorismen enthält der Band die sogenannten ›Er-Aphorismen‹, in denen Kafka seine Gedanken fortführt.

On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates...

In Anthony Burgess’s influential nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, a teen who talks in a fantastically inventive slang that evocatively renders his and his friends’ intense reaction against their society. Dazzling and transgressive, A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil and the...

These were all just ghosts of the night, phantoms of the mind wandering in the dark. And although he had to see a lot of them and even once during a lonely walk to face Satan himself, the daylight always overcame all this devilry, and then he could lead an ordinary, pleasant life without fear of the forces of the other world.

The last of London's books published during his lifetime, it involves a love triangle set in California. The main character, Paula, is married to Dick Forrest but falls in love with Evan Graham. The story's sexuality bothered readers at the time but their actions appear rather unrealistic based on modern day standards.

‘Ship Master’ is a real story with real prototypes. In the plot, you can recognize the artistic bohemians of that time: director Oleksandr Dovzhenko, director of Odesa and Kyiv film factories Pavlo Neches, artist, architect, one of the founders of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts, Vasyl Krychevskyi. This is the story of creativity, love, the stormy era of the emergence of cinema and life in Odessa...

The eight stories that make up Octaedro - a figure as geometric as it is mysterious, as perfect as it is reticent - mix certain social and political content that Cortázar had addressed in Libro de Manuel (1973) with his most recurrent themes: love, dreams, illness, death, the threshold between the everyday and the fantastic.

In the collection 'Stories of A.P. Chekhov in Russian and Kazakh' included 10 stories by A.P. Chekhov in the Russian original and translated into the Kazakh language: 'Smear' (1883), 'Grisha' (1886), 'Evil Boy' (1883), 'Joy' (1883), 'Thick and Thin' (1883), ' Chameleon' (1884), 'Mysterious nature' (1883), 'Mask' (1898), 'Order' (1884), 'Reference' (1883). We hope that the book will be useful to...