»Was kommt danach?« Wenn das Leben nach dem Tod so aussehen sollte, wie Kurt Tucholsky es sich ausmalt, dann wäre es gar nicht schlecht: mit einem Freund auf einer Wolke sitzen und über das Leben sinnieren. In den 1920ern widmete er sich in 20 tiefsinnigen wie amüsanten Erzählungen, die in der Weltbühne als Kolumne erschienen, dem Jenseits, Gott, menschlichen Fehlern und Beziehungen. Mit einem...

War. Terrible and hateful. Ernst Graeber - an ordinary German soldier - for the first time after two years of war goes on vacation for three weeks. Three priceless weeks - time to live! He leaves to be at war again - in a city where endless bombing. In th

One of the most fascinating and sad love stories of the twentieth world century. The story of the romance of the most famous singer of the 'lost generation' Erich Maria Remarque and the most famous 'femme fatale' of world cinema Marlene Dietrich, told by

'Arc de Triomphe' is a poignant love story against all odds, love that brings pain, but also gives endless joy. The scene is Paris on the eve of World War II. The hero is a refugee from Germany, without documents, hiding from both the French and the Nazis

This astonishing, autobiographical tour de force was written by Hans Fallada in an encrypted notebook while he was incarcerated in a Nazi insane asylum. Discovered after his death, it tells the tale—often fierce, often poignant, often extremely funny—of a small businessman losing control as he fights valiantly to blot out an increasingly oppressive society.

Veresaev's literary debut. An autobiographical book that was first published in 1901 - and immediately brought wide fame to the young author. The first steps of a freshly minted aesculapian starting his journey in the medical field. Good luck and bad luck. A painful fear of a mistake that could kill an innocent patient. Stress. Despair. Pride of success. Dangerous and morally questionable, but...

Miniature edition. White paper, large, legible font. Flipbook format, great for reading in the subway, on the bus, in a plane.

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...

The edition includes the best works of the talented Ukrainian writer, brilliant novelist, follower of I. Franko, master of words, Mykhailo Kotsyubynskyi (1864-1913) - ‘Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors’, ‘Horses Are Not Guilty’, ‘Intermezzo’, ‘Laughter’ and others. Small in volume, but psychologically tense works, in which the writer depicted vivid and true images, belong to the highest...