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...

Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are probably the most famous boys in the whole wide world - kind and sincere, savvy and reckless, charming, like childhood itself, easily find the key to any heart. This is how Tom and Huck created the pen - or rather, the typewriter - of the great American writer Mark Twain. We invite our readers to plunge into a wonderful world full of adventures, mysteries...

Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society. Volume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner's towering masterpi

Inspired by Jack Kerouac's adventures with Neal Cassady, On the Road tells the story of two friends whose cross-country road trips are a quest for meaning and true experience. Written with a mixture of sad-eyed naivete and wild ambition and imbued with Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz, On the Road is the quintessential American vision of...

Mark Twain's first historical novel, The Prince and the Pauper, is a classic adventure of mistaken identity that champions social justice. Set in 1547, it tells the story of two young boys who were born on the same day and are identical in appearance: Tom Canty, a pauper who lives with his abusive, alcoholic father in Offal Court off Pudding Lane in London, and Edward VI of England, son of...

The famous American writer O. Henry (William Sidney Porter) is the author of popular short stories, a master of original plot twists, colorful dialogues and stunning endings. The writer's creative legacy consists of ten collections, or over six hundred short stories, which are something like a humorous encyclopedia of American life at the beginning of the twentieth century. However, O. Henry's...

The pages of the book will revive the St. Petersburg streets of the 19th century, you will get acquainted with the customs of the inhabitants of St. Petersburg. And quite in the spirit of Nikolai Gogol, you will learn about the life of bureaucratic Petersburg and the adventures of Mr. Golyadkin. See the big picture of an ideal humanity and moral decline among people.

The young companion of a capricious elderly American woman becomes the wife of the imposing English aristocrat Maximilian de Winter, tormented by secret sadness, and arrives with him at his Manderley family estate. In a huge gloomy mansion, the people, the walls, and, it seems, the air itself remind the new owner of her deceased predecessor, the beautiful and sophisticated Rebecca de Winter....

Жюль Верн, создатель жанра фантастико-приключенческого романа, – один из самых читаемых французских авторов, которого мало кто из писателей опережает по количеству переизданий. Герои Верна покоряют леса, пустыни, глубины мирового океана, открывают тайны космоса и погружаются в земные недра. Конечно, наука за полтора столетия освоила многие заповедные для той эпохи территории, но присущее...

Der chronologische Aufbau der zwischen 1916 und 1939 entstandenen Erzählungen vermittelt ein genaues Bild von der literarischen Entwicklung Joseph Roths: Der Bogen seiner Erzählkunst spannt sich vom Frühwerk Der Vorzugsschüler über Die Legende vom heiligen Trinker, »eine der schönsten Legenden, die im 20. Jahrhundert gedichtet wurde« (Marcel Reich-Ranicki), zur Novelle Der Leviathan, Roths...

Die 1949 vom russischen Geheimdienst konfiszierte und nun in russischen Archiven wiederaufgespürte Urfassung des großen Antikriegsromans. Gefunden, herausgegeben und mit einem dokumentarischen Anhang versehen von Carsten Gansel. Ein Buch, zurück aus 70 Jahren Kriegsgefangenschaft.

In seiner Dachgeschosswohnung empfängt der Maler und Dichter Fritz Schramm junge Menschen mit künstlerischen Ambitionen. Zwischen ihm und dem Musikstudenten Ernst Winter entwickelt sich eine Freundschaft, die auf die Probe gestellt wird, als Ernst sich in die Opernsängerin Lanna verliebt. Remarques Romandebüt: ein berührendes Porträt des Künstlers als junger Mann und der Beginn einer großen...