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...

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...

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....

‘The story ‘Cancer Ward’ was conceived by Solzhenitsyn in the summer of 1954 in Tashkent, where, after exile, he was treated at an oncology clinic. Memories of this formed the basis of the story. Her heroes are patients of the ‘cancer ward’. Among them are people of all social classes, ages from all over the vast country. Their destinies reflected the state of Soviet society when, struck by the...

Die witzige Kommunikationshilfe von Bastian Campman, Texter und Sänger der Senkrechtstarter-Band Kasalla, erklärt Köln und seine Bewohner mit Charme und Humor. Hier finden Sie wertvolle Insidertipps vom korrekten Fluchen über die besten Tipps zum Flirten bis zu den größten Lebensweisheiten der Kölner und vieles mehr. Lernen Sie den feinen Unterschied zwischen dem, was der Kölner sagt und dem,...

The Glass Bead Game is an ultra-aesthetic game which is played by the scholars, creamed off in childhood and nurtured in elite schools, in the province of Castalia. The Master of the Glass Bead Game, Joseph Knecht, holds the most exalted office in Castalia. He personifies the detachment, serenity and aesthetic vision which reward a life dedicated to perfection of the intellect. But can, indeed...

In this book you will find the most necessary grammatical topics, a large number of examples with translation into Russian language, Georgian-Russian and Russian-Georgian dictionaries, which will become assistants in learning the language. Thanks to visual diagrams and tables, you will easily master all the complexities of Georgian grammar in the shortest possible time. The publication is...

Do you think that young readers can only be interested in educational books about insects and birds, about life in past geological eras or about cosmic wonders? Lesya Movchun talks about the language in such a fascinating way that children will definitely want to read the book to the end!

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...

The cult novel by George Orwell, one of the main anti-utopias of the 20th century. A creepy and frightening text that has not lost its relevance even 70 years later. For the first time, 1984 is published in Russian in a new, complete, uncensored and cuts, translation by Daria Tselovalnikova.

The 1930s, the times of Stalinist repressions. A young man sentenced to 25 years for love of his homeland escapes from the stage echelon of the NKVD, which transports exhausted and desperate people to a slow death in the Gulag camps. A townsman, an aircraft design engineer, finds himself in a forest thicket teeming with predators, without a map, weapons, tools, warm clothes or even food.