So begins The War of the Worlds, the science fiction classic that first proposed the possibility of intelligent life on other planets and has enthralled readers for generations. This compelling tale describes the Martian invasion of earth. When huge, tireless creatures land in England, complete chaos erupts. Using their fiery heat rays and crushing strength, the aliens just may succeed in...

This is the main collection of poems by Walt Whitman, the outstanding American classic of the nineteenth century and the progenitor of free verse and a humanist. Whitman supplemented and reissued the collection throughout his life. The poems are presented in classic translations by true masters of the word: Korney Chukovsky, Samuel Marshak, and Mikhail Zenkevich.

In this landmark account, renowned historian Barbara W. Tuchman re-creates the first month of World War I: thirty days in the summer of 1914 that determined the course of the conflict, the century, and ultimately our present world. Beginning with the funeral of Edward VII, Tuchman traces each step that led to the inevitable clash. And inevitable it was, with all sides plotting their war for a...

First published in Rolling Stone magazine in 1971, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever experienced. The writer’s account of an assignment he...

In the novel ‘The Surgeon,’ the story of the brilliant plastic surgeon Arkady Khripunov is intertwined with the story of the life of Hassan ibn Sabbah – the prophet and founder of the Nizari Ismaili state of the 11th century, the master of the impregnable Alamut fortress. Khripunov changes human bodies, and therefore destinies. Granting people new faces, he sees before him simply material –...

The novel, which caused a storm of indignation among conservative critics, topped the national bestseller lists for a long time and served as the basis for a classic film starring James Dean. A family saga... A story of passionate love and hatred, trust and betrayal, mistakes and crimes... But above all, it is the story of two sons of the Californian Adam Trask, a kind of Cain and Abel. Each of...

A bestseller by a star of science fiction. - ‘Black Mirror’ in a Russian style. Seven spine-chilling stories about changing reality. - Anna Starobinets is the winner of the ‘Best European Writer’ award from the European Science Fiction Society Congress! - An extraordinary authorial style. The writer is compared to Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, and even George Orwell.

‘The Headless Horseman.’ A gem of Mayne Reid's literary legacy. The captivating story of the beautiful Louise Poindexter and the noble Irishman Maurice Gerald, the proud Mexican woman Isidora Covarrubio, the cruel Captain Cassius Calhoun, the brave hunter Zeb Stump, and the dashing bandit El Coyote is considered a true masterpiece of adventure prose and is endlessly loved by both foreign and...

‘Fight Club’ is Chuck Palahniuk's most famous novel. Everyone remembers the film directed by David Fincher, starring Brad Pitt, right? It's based on this book. It's a challenging novel, a novel created in defiance of everything and everyone, describing a generation of embittered people who have lost their sense of right and wrong, of good and evil, who they are themselves and who surrounds...

‘Little Women’ is the first book in Louisa May Alcott's tetralogy about sisters growing up during difficult times in America. The novel is a true bestseller, translated into 50 languages worldwide, and in Russia alone, over 120,000 copies were sold in 2022. The novel has been adapted for the screen six times, with the latest adaptation released in 2019. The main roles were played by Saoirse...

Don Quixote has become so entranced reading tales of chivalry that he decides to turn knight errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, these exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote's fancy often leads him astray—he tilts at windmills, imagining them to be giants—Sancho acquires cunning and a certain sagacity. Sane madman and wise fool, they roam...

Jake, hack writer and sponger, now penniless flat-hunter, seeks out an old girlfriend, Anna Quentin, and her glamorous actress sister, Sadie. He resumes acquaintance with the formidable Hugo, whose ‘philosophy’ he once presumptuously dared to interpret. These meetings involve Jake and his eccentric servant-companion, Finn, in a series of adventures that include the kidnapping of a film-star dog...