N.V. Gogol is the greatest Russian writer and playwright. One of the peaks of his work, the most famous of his works is considered to be the comedy 'The Examiner'. Since the first production in 1836, the play has not left the stage of theaters around the world and has served as the basis for numerous film adaptations, and the names of its characters have become common nouns. Gogol's plays...

After the jaw-dropping revelation that Oak is the heir to Faerie, Jude must keep her younger brother safe. To do so, she has bound the wicked king, Cardan, to her, and made herself the power behind the throne. Navigating the constantly shifting political alliances of Faerie would be difficult enough if Cardan were easy to control. But he does everything in his power to humiliate and...

Третья космическая эра. Золушку зовут Линь Зола, и она киборг. Красную Шапочку зовут Скарлет, и она умеет управлять звездолетом.А Рапунцель (в новой реальности — Кресс) семь долгих лет провела в заточении на орбитальном спутнике, в рабстве у королевы Луны.Левана, повелительница Луны, угрожает землянам гибелью, а герои вечных сказок пытаются спасти мир,хотя теперь им чаще приходится использовать...

Coming from a provincial working-class family, Platonov wholeheartedly accepted the October Revolution, and the more interesting is the fact that his works convey with unprecedented force a personal ideological tragedy, unusually clearly expressed in ‘The Pit.’ The very idea of building a ‘Common Proletarian House’ turns ‘The Pit’ into a dystopia that is shocking in its power, where the details...

Daniel leads a rich life in the university town of Athens, Georgia. He’s got a couple close friends, a steady paycheck working for a regional airline, and of course, for a few glorious days each Fall, college football tailgates. He considers himself to be a mostly lucky guy-despite the fact that he’s suffered from a debilitating disease since he was a small child, one that has left him unable...

‘A fascinating, gripping story of the confrontation between the fearless young meteorologist Klimenko and the half-mad, brilliant adventurer Bailey, who has learned to liquefy air from the atmosphere and sell the resulting balls of air gas hydrate. Bailey's criminal activity leads to radical climate change. The Earth begins to lose its atmosphere. How can we stop the ‘air seller’ before he...

Schlump, written by Hans Herbert Grimm, was published anonymously in 1928 and was one of the first German novels to describe World War I in all its horror and absurdity, and it remains one of the best. What really sets it apart is its remarkable central character. Who is Schlump? A bit of a rascal and a bit of a sweetheart, a victim of his times, an inveterate survivor, maybe even a new type of...

It is a pseudo-autobiographical postmodernist prose poem by Russian writer and satirist Venedikt Erofeev. Written between 1969 and 1970 this book was passed around in samizdat for a long time. The story follows an alcoholic intellectual, Venya (or Venichka), as he travels by a suburban train on a 125 km (78 mi) journey from Moscow to visit his beautiful beloved and child in Petushki, a city...

The poem 'Odyssey', created by the genius of the legendary epic poet of Ancient Greece Homer, is one of the greatest works of world literature, a creation full of full-blooded life, bright fantasy and poetic brilliance. The dangerous adventures of the cunning and long-suffering Odyssey (he, passionately striving to go home to Ithaca, will have to fight with Poseidon, visit the country of cruel...

Composed around 730 B.C., Homer’s Iliad recounts the events of a few momentous weeks in the protracted ten-year war between the invading Achaeans, or Greeks, and the Trojans in their besieged city of Ilion. From the explosive confrontation between Achilles, the greatest warrior at Troy, and Agamemnon, the inept leader of the Greeks, through to its tragic conclusion, The Iliad explores the...

Одно из самых загадочных и провокационных произведений братьев Стругацких, печатавшееся по частям – в 1966 и 1968 годах, после чего попало под запрет и пришло к читателю в полном объеме только в 1988 году.

Ten years after the divorce of her parents, the daughter meets her trucker father and travels with him through central Russia and the southern regions. The Steppe is a new novel by Oksana Vasyakina, which is a dialogue with her debut novel Wound: the first book is about a daughter's farewell to her dead mother; the second is about the relationship with the father. Returning her thoughts to the...