Past the rusted gates and untrimmed hedges, Hill House broods and waits….Four seekers have come to the ugly, abandoned old mansion: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of the psychic phenomenon called haunting; Theodora, his lovely and lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a lonely, homeless girl well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the adventurous future heir of Hill...

The children's book classic in the famous English adaptation by Mark Twain, with all illustrations and the German original in the appendix.

One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than 40 languages, sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the 20th century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South...

Children of the Arbat is one of the most significant works of Russian literature of the 20th century. The main characters of this epic are the metropolitan youth of the thirties of the last century. True friends, a close circle - each of them has a special path prepared by fate. Someone will receive an honorable place of 'arbiter of destinies', others - a link to the Far East; some will be able...

The Good Soldier Schweik is the story beginning in Prague with news of the assassination in Sarajevo that precipitates World War I. Schweik displays such enthusiasm about faithfully serving the Austrian Emperor in battle that no one can decide whether he is merely an imbecile or is craftily undermining the war effort. However, he is arrested by a member of the secret police after making some...

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Everything in this life has to be paid for. The protagonist of our book paid for the fleeting minutes of fame, wealth and much more. As he later understood, neither money nor fame can replace the feelings experienced by a person experiencing love, joy, hu