Authors of this book have chosen the most difficult grammatical themes that exist in the Russian language. The collection of tasks in the form of a working writing-book consists of six most complex sections of Russian grammar. Tasks, the theoretical comment and a unfamiliar lexical material are provided by translation into English language. Interesting texts containing in the book, jokes,...

Reader for B2 level. This book consists of 14 lessons. All texts are provided with the necessary comments and footnotes. New words and phrases are introduced as footnotes and translated into English. In this case, only the contextual meaning of the word or phrase is given. A variety of grammar and vocabulary exercises make reading much easier and help students learn new material.

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

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...

Greg Heffley is in big trouble. School property has been damaged, and Greg is the prime suspect. But the crazy thing is, he’s innocent. Or at least sort of. The authorities are closing in, but when a surprise blizzard hits, the Heffley family is trapped indoors. Greg knows that when the snow melts he’s going to have to face the music, but could any punishment be worse than being stuck inside...

The book presents the story 'First Love' by the famous Russian writer of the XIX century, I.S. Turgenev. This is a story about the feelings and spiritual experiences of a young man who first fell in love. The hero kept memories of the first love in his heart for many years. The text of the tale is adapted (B1), accompanied by commentary, tasks for reading comprehension and speech development.

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...

'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...