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.

'The Master and Margarita' by MA Bulgakov is the most amazing and mysterious work of the 20th century. Published in the mid-1960s, this novel amazed readers with its unusual design, brilliance and fantastic action, uniting characters from different eras and cultures. The author created a 'novel in a novel', where a religious and historical mystery dating back to the legend of the crucified...

Pushkin's literary reputation was formed largely due to the popularity of his poems, and each new poem became the subject of heated debate and an occasion to discuss pressing issues of Russian literature. In 1835, the poet published a two-volume 'Poems and Tales of Alexander Pushkin', which included all completed poems that were awarded the highest permission. In this collection, the...

Wuthering Heights is Emily Brontë's first and only published novel, written between October 1845 and June 1846, and published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell; Brontë died the following year, aged 30. The decision to publish came after the success of her sister Charlotte's novel, Jane Eyre. After Emily's death, Charlotte edited the manuscript of Wuthering Heights, and arranged for the...

James Fenimore Cooper can rightly be called the father of an American adventure novel. Thanks to him, the amazing and peculiar realities of a distant continent, populated by ruthless and brave Indians, desperately and hopelessly protecting their native lands from a pale-faced person, entered the literature. Bright, unusual and fascinating novels by James Fenimore Cooper have enjoyed tremendous...

This edition presents the novel 'The Adolescent.' Along with the novels 'Crime and Punishment', 'Idiot', 'Demons', 'Brothers Karamazov', he composes the so-called Great Five-Book of Dostoevsky. The desire for money and power, the dream of superiority over millions of 'ordinary' people, the problem of fathers and children, the atheism are the dangers for the Russian teenager. Are they...

The Adventures of Oliver Twist is the second novel of the great English writer Charles Dickens, which he began at the time when he had not even managed to completely print the posthumous notes of the Pickwick Club that brought him fame. The fascinating and touching story of the misfortunes of the little orphan Oliver Twist, despite the nearly two hundred years that have passed since its...

'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: A Tour of the Underwater World' is a classic action-adventure novel by French author Jules Verne. Published in 1870, 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea' has become one of the most widely recognized novels in the science fiction genre. Much alike to the famous at-sea adventure novel 'Moby Dick,' naturalist Dr. Aronnax sets out on an epic conquest to...

M. Yu. Lermontov is the second, after Pushkin, value in Russian literature of the first half of the 19th century. This edition publishes Lermontov's poems of different years, including such generally recognized masterpieces as 'Prisoner of the Caucasus', 'Mtsyri', 'Demon', as well as the novel 'A Hero of Our Time' - one of the pinnacles of Russian prose. Perceived by contemporaries of M. Yu....

A remarkable property of Pushkin's creativity is the bright poetic power and accuracy of images along with brevity. Belkin' (1830) - the first work of Pushkin in prose, completed, printed and, alas, was not successful. It was written in just over 40 days in the village of Bolshoe Boldino in the autumn of 1830, where Pushkin languished, waiting to go to his bride: the way of life was closed due...