Every time the streets erupt with communist demonstrations. The director of the Viennese police receives a message that at the same time two young states, the Republic of Poland and Soviet Russia, are demanding the extradition of a certain Adam Vistowicz, the chief commissioner from Lemberg, Galicia. Why did a humble policeman interest the highest diplomatic circles? Will it be possible to...

1905 year. The career of one of the best investigators of Galicia, Lviv commissioner Adam Vistovych, is on the rise. In order to help his younger colleague, Associate Professor Samkovsky, the commissar takes on a seemingly trivial matter. However, it turns out that its threads stretch far beyond the borders of Lviv and even beyond the borders of the empire.

The novel ‘Shoes of the Mother of God’ by the prominent Ukrainian writer Maria Mathios tells about one of the most painful tragedies of the 20th century in the territory that historian Timothy Snyder calls the ‘bloodlands’. This is a new edition of the work with new episodes.

In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas—and a new unrest—begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a charismatic spell that attracts an increasingly fervent following. In the decade to come, Frank will...

It presents a richly detailed portrait of life in Berlin under the Nazis and tells the sweeping saga of one working-class couple who decides to take a stand when their only son is killed at the front. With nothing but their grief and each other against the awesome power of the Reich, they launch a simple, clandestine resistance campaign that soon has an enraged Gestapo on their trail, and a...

This text radiates with furnace heat and exudes grave cold — and at the same time. The novel is based on materials from the investigative case of Pyotr Ilyich Nesterenko, director of the Moscow crematorium on the territory of the Don Necropolis. While working on the novel, Sasha Filipenko repeated the path of the main character, following him by visiting Saratov and Paris, Istanbul and Warsaw....

Winston Smith, ein einfaches Mitglied der diktatorischen Staatspartei, arbeitet im Ministerium für Wahrheit, wo er die Vergangenheit im Sinne der Regierung umschreibt. «Der große Bruder» überwacht alle Bürger, jeder Widerstand gegen das System wird streng bestraft. Winston jedoch sehnt sich in seinem Innersten nach echter Wahrheit – und nach Liebe. Trotz aller Verbote beginnt er eine Beziehung...

Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely traveling any farther than his pantry or cellar. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an adventure. They have launched a plot to raid the treasure hoard guarded by Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon....

Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: Survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune. The catch? Avery has no idea why - or even who Tobias Hawthorne is.

Poems at the turn of the era often lose their autonomy and increasingly resemble diaries. What can be found in Serhii Zhadan's new poetic diary? 50 and 1 poem, written before and after the big bang, brought together, united by a sense of language that so painfully disappears, but then inevitably returns. Stringed on the string of the voice, dependent on the sound, they, these poems, remain a...

The story revolves around Dorian Gray, a youthful and affluent individual who possesses a portrait that ages in his place. Unrestrained, Dorian indulges in various pleasures and debaucheries, eventually descending into the realm of murder. Despite his immoral actions, Dorian retains his youth and beauty while the portrait progressively reflects his moral decay and malevolence. Similar to...

A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned-a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible.