A spark is enough: when a starving boy collapses, the exploited weavers protest in front of the manufacturer's villa in Thirties. The situation escalates. Hauptmann's drama about the Silesian weavers' uprising of 1844 was a political issue - the first public performance in Berlin in 1894 was preceded by a lengthy censorship process, Kaiser Wilhelm II resigned from his box in the »Deutsches...

The open end of Hauptmann's 'thief comedy' in four acts is surprising. So much so that the audience at the world premiere on September 21, 1893 remained irritated and remained seated in the Deutsches Theater. The head of the department, Wehrhahn, a representative of the authorities, certified that the beaver fur thief, Mother Wolffen, was 'an honest person'. How could it come to this? The text...

The volume contains Kafka's most important short prose texts from the period up to 1914: Conversation with the Prayer, Conversation with the Drunk, Big Noise, the Collection Contemplation and the great stories The Judgment and In the Penal Colony.

The novel 'Oblomov' is the pinnacle of creativity of I. A. Goncharov. The writer showed an amazing and paradoxical type of Russian man, making his name a household name. The novel received a mixed response from critics. N. A. Dobroliubov saw in Oblomov a symbol of the inertia of Russia and a sign of the times.

The work of the famous English writer Jane Austen, the author of elegant and witty novels PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, MANSFIELD-PARK, EMMA, has had a significant impact on the development of English prose of the XIX-XX centuries and has been enjoying increasing popularity among readers for almost two hundred years. This publication publishes the novel SENSE AND SENSITIVITY, known worldwide for its...

It is 1918: the Russian Revolution has just ended, Ukraine is in the midst of civil war, and in Kiev, the two Turbin brothers are preparing to fight for the White Guard in the wake of their beloved mother’s death. Friends charge in from the streets amid an atmosphere of heady chaos, downing vodka, keeling over, taking baths, playing the guitar, falling in love. But the new regime is poised for...

Bi-lingual, parallel text edition of the Great Gatsby.

The cult novel by George Orwell, one of the main anti-utopias of the 20th century. A creepy and frightening text that has not lost its relevance even 70 years later. For the first time, 1984 is published in Russian in a new, complete, uncensored and cuts, translation by Daria Tselovalnikova.

The most cruel, the most nervous and the most sincere story about human's madness and addiction to roulette.

A graphic description of life in a Stalin-era labor camp in Siberia. Simple but relentless. One of the best books of the 20th century that stunned the literary world when it was published in 1962. A picture of dehumanization.