Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naïve epileptic Prince Myshkin - known as the 'idiot' - pays a visit to his distant relative General Yepanchin and proceeds to charm the General and his family. But his life is thrown into turmoil when he chances on a photograph of the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna. Utterly infatuated, he soon finds himself caught up in a love...

В настоящем издании представлен роман «Подросток». Наряду с романами «Преступление и наказание», «Идиот», «Бесы», «Братья Карамазовы» он составляет так называемое великое пятикнижие Достоевского.Желание денег и власти, мечта о превосходстве над миллионами «обыкновенных», проблема отцов и детей, богоборчество – вот опасности для русского подростка. Преодолимы ли они и что победит в итоге: бунт...

In the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. With a sharp, probing imagination, James Baldwin's now-classic narrative delves into the mystery of loving and creates a moving, highly controversial story of death and passion that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart.

This book is about the bitter and funny world of people who live without noticing time. People who are not afraid to fly and know how to find something funny even in the tragic. A world of old people and children, adults and those who have lost their faith, but have not despaired. The world of people who are forever stuck in that dimension where dreams will come true someday.

Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. But his real problem is not the enemy-it is his own army, which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Yet if Yossarian makes any attempt to excuse...

For his debut novel (Former Son, 2014), Sasha Filipenko received the Russian Prize a year ago. On the first try - a first degree diploma in the ‘Large Prose’ category. So how can you start reading the next book after this? Moreover, the author clearly ‘ma

Belonging in the immortal company of the great works of literature, Dante Alighieri’s poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of Hell, up the arduous slopes of Purgatory, and on to the glorious realm of Paradise—the sphere of universal harmony and eternal salvation.

'The Last Judgment' - a book by Viktor Erofeev, similar to the famous painting by Bosch - is a judgment on all of us, writers, journalists, critics, thinkers, prophets, millionaires, homeless people, Russia, America, Europe, Atlantis, friends, lovers, enemies - and over the reader. This is a worldwide massacre of passions that can shake, destroy and recreate the world from the ashes.

Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Elena Ferrante’s four-volume story spans almost sixty years, as its main characters, the fiery and unforgettable Lila and the bookish narrator, Elena, become women, wives, mothers, and leaders, all the while maintaining a complex and at times conflicted friendship. This first novel in the series follows Lila...

Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin’s story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncertain future, the young lovers experience a...