'Rarely, to such an extent, in such complete equilibrium, were two hard-to-combine elements: sympathy for humanity and artistic feeling,' F.I. Tyutchev admired the Notes of the Hunter. In Notes of the Hunter, Turgenev recreates the thin, colorful material of national life: poetry and prose, light and shadows are intertwined here in unique, bizarre images, and nature turns out to be a necessary...

Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice’s life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice’s grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate, the Hazel Wood, Alice learns how bad her luck can really get: Her mother is stolen away-by a figure who claims to come...

The classic tale about the elephant Horton and being responsible. In Polish with the original English included in the back as an appendix.

Essays on the work of a doctor in the province, written by Maxim Osipov from 2006 to 2017, brought him fame. First collected under one cover, they paint a vivid picture of the changes that have taken place in recent years with Russian society and with the author himself, who is looking at the 'city N.' from different sides, but always sympathetic and unbiased. The peculiarity of the author's...

Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten. Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars brilliantly explores...

The Petersburg Stories constitute Gogol's finest work, on which his fame is justly based. The plays included in this volume are 'The Government Inspector' and 'The Marriage'.

Sergei Dovlatov was born in an evacuation and died in exile. As a writer, he formed in Leningrad, but success came to him in America, where he lived since 1979. His artistic thought with apparent paradoxicality, grounded in life experience, is simple and noble: to tell how strangely people live - then sadly laughing, then ridiculously sad. There are no righteous people in his books, because...

About love that is stronger than death. About that light and this darkness. Mysteries of consciousness and their clues. Fundamentals vampoekonomiki. Gynecology of protest. The firm guarantees: Not a word about the swamp! For the first time in the world l

Let’s face it: Greg Heffley will never change his wimpy ways. Somebody just needs to explain that to Greg’s father. You see, Frank Heffley actually thinks he can get his son to toughen up, and he enlists Greg in organized sports and other “manly” endeavors. Of course, Greg is able to easily sidestep his father’s efforts to change him. But when Greg’s dad threatens to send him to military...

Percy Jackson is a good kid, but he can't seem to focus on his schoolwork or control his temper. And lately, being away at boarding school is only getting worse--Percy could have sworn his pre-algebra teacher turned into a monster and tried to kill him.

The demigods race to the rescue, to find that Grover has made an important discovery: two new powerful half-bloods whose parentage is unknown. But that's not all that awaits them. The Titan lord, Kronos, has set up his most devious trap yet, and the young heroes have just fallen prey.