A special adaptation of the legendary book 'The Little Prince' by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry will be an important step for the smallest readers into the world of adventure and love for the world around them. The soulful story of the book is complemented by incredible illustrations by Sara Massini, in which the story comes to life and is filled with colors.

The volume edited by Jochen Schubert offers a comprehensive selection from Heinrich Böll's narrative work, following several aspects: in addition to the best-known stories, there are those that are representative due to their subject and narrative style, and others that have not yet been published or are only planned hard-to-reach places. The total of 75 stories vividly document Böll's work in...

Nowadays, Andrei Platonov has rightfully taken the place of the leading classic of Russian literature of the twentieth century. This edition publishes one of the most important works for Plato’s entire work, which for a long time remained a ‘brilliant freak’ - the novel ‘Chevengur’, created in 1927-1928, but returned to readers only in the second half of the 1980s.

The guide contains basic information about the phonetics, grammar, vocabulary and spelling of the Ukrainian language in comparison with the English language. The rules are illustrated with examples, and various exercises are also provided. Words and expressions are translated into English and vice versa.

July 2014, Donbass. A student named Zhanna returns to her native mining village from Kharkov to look after her dying mother. At the same time, their young neighbor nicknamed Valet and an elderly secret service officer named Korol arrive from Moscow - both on assignment from the Russian military command. Something terrible and irreparable is about to happen. But this is not the first time that...

In this issue: Alexander Genis Literary Nonfiction by A. Genis, The View from the Window, Red Bread, USA from A to Y, Brodsky in New York, Darkness and Silence: The Art of Subtraction. These literary pieces by one of Russia's foremost essayists reflect the author's bi-culturalism - Russian and American civilizations are compared in their various manifestations. Genis is a shrewd and observant...

An adapted text of a popular science fiction novel, supplied with stress marks and a glossary. It is accompanied with exercises, vocabulary lists and illustrations.

Explanatory Dictionary of Contemporary Russian Language. Over 5 000 entires!

As the story opens, mysterious goings-on ruffle the self-satisfied suburban world of the Dursleys, culminating in a trio of strangers depositing the Dursleys' infant nephew Harry in a basket on their doorstep. After 11 years of disregard and neglect at the hands of his aunt, uncle and their swinish son Dudley, Harry suddenly receives a visit from a giant named Hagrid, who informs Harry that his...