The novella tells the story of the life and death, at the age of 45, of a high-court judge in 19th-century Russia—a miserable husband, proud father, and upwardly-mobile member of Russia's professional class, the object of Tolstoy's unremitting satire. Living what seems to be a good life, his dreadful relationship with his wife notwithstanding, Ivan Ilyich Golovin bangs his side while putting up...

The fifth book in the Harry Potter series!

Considered by many the greatest war novel of all time, All Quiet on the Western Front is Erich Maria Remarque's masterpiece of the German experience during World War I. I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. This is the testament of Paul Baumer, who enlists with his classmates in the...

Francis Scott Fitzgerald became the mouthpiece of ideas and the spokesman of the mental mood of youth of the 1920s. Through the lips of the hero of the novel published here - 'On This Side of Paradise' (1920) - he announced that a generation had come for whom 'all the gods died, all wars died out, all faith was undermined.' Fitzgerald was the first to inform the world about the beginning of the...

The manual is aimed at pupils of the Suvorov military schools, cadet corps and graduate students. It involves working within the framework of topics that provide general information about the armed forces, their types, structure, types of troops, military ranks, uniforms and insignia, elements of tactics, their weapons and equipment. The book will help lay the foundations for studying military...

This textbook is intended for the formation and development of translation knowledge and skills of students studying at the military department at MGIMO of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia under the program to train reserve sergeants of the VGUS 914 (558).

Igor Rabiner has been writing about the NHL since the 1990s and is familiar with all of its and our heroes. 'Bombora' publishes his book in two volumes about the fantastic fate of Russian stars that dominate the NHL to this day. Artemy Panarin from the New York Rangers, Andrey Vasilevsky from the Tampa Bay Lightning, Vladimir Tarasenko became the heroes in the second book from the St. Louis...

The novel follows the character development of Elizabeth Bennet, the dynamic protagonist of the book, who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and eventually comes to appreciate the difference between superficial goodness and actual goodness. A classic piece filled with comedy, its humour lies in its honest depiction of manners, education, marriage and money during the Regency era...