Der zeitlose Klassiker über winterliche Irrungen und Wirrungen jetzt in einem Band mit der wiederentdeckten Kästner-Erzählung Inferno im Hotel. Dieses Buch versammelt erstmals Erich Kästners Welterfolg »Drei Männer im Schnee« und die Erzählung »Inferno im Hotel«, die 1927 nur in einer Zeitung erschien und Kästner später als Vorlage für den Roman diente. Dazu ein Beitrag der Kästner-Expertin...

В книгу вошли два самых известных романа американского писателя Марка Твена 'Приключения Тома Сойера' и 'Приключения Гекльберри Финна'. Историями о приключениях двух отчаянных и непослушных мальчишек вот уже почти два века зачитываются мальчишки и девчонки. Том и Гек – два хороших друга. Правда, дружить им запрещают, ведь Гек – бродяга, с ним благовоспитанным детям даже разговаривать нельзя. Но...

With care for your eyes! Large-font edition for easy reading. The Count of Monte Cristo, one of the most popular novels by Alexandre Dumas, is a stunning success with readers. The author took its plot from the archives of the Parisian police. The real life of the shoemaker François Picot, who became the prototype of Edmond Dantes, was transformed under the pen of a real artist into a gripping...

With this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Thomas Mann rose to the front ranks of the great modern novelists, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. The Magic Mountain takes place in an exclusive tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps–a community devoted to sickness that serves as a fictional microcosm for Europe in the days before the First World War. To this hermetic and...

В книге представлены тексты разных жанров, взятые из периодической печати. Темы сгруппированы по их социальной значимости, начиная с вопросов, актуальных для отдельного индивида, затем семьи, общества и заканчивая глобальными проблемами.

As a young boy, Luzhin was unattractive, distracted, withdrawn, sullen--an enigma to his parents and an object of ridicule to his classmates. He takes up chess as a refuge from the anxiety of his everyday life. His talent is prodigious and he rises to the rank of grandmaster--but at a cost: in Luzhin' s obsessive mind, the game of chess gradually supplants the world of reality. His own...

Valerian Pidmohylnyi’s The City was a landmark event in the history of Ukrainian literature. Written by a master craftsman in full control of the texture, rhythm, and tone of the text, the novel tells the story of Stepan, a young man from the provinces who moves to the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv, and achieves success as a writer through a succession of romantic encounters with women.

Mit großer Leidenschaft erzählt Remarque die Geschichte des Arztes Ravic, der nach Paris emigriert und hier den Vorabend des Zweiten Weltkrieges erlebt. Aus Liebe zu zwei Frauen und dem Hass auf einen Gestapo-Agenten entwickelt sich das Drama eines Exilschicksals, in dessen Realität sich der Aufstand gegen den Terror einer ganzen Epoche spiegelt.

A desperate young man plans the perfect crime—the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old women no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime, to transgress moral law—if it will ultimately benefit humanity? So begins one of the greatest novels ever written: a powerful psychological study, a terrifying murder mystery, a fascinating...

Franz Kafka’s 1915 novella of unexplained horror and nightmarish transformation became a worldwide classic and remains a century later one of the most widely read works of fiction in the world. It is the story of traveling salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself transformed into a monstrous insect. This hugely influential work inspired George Orwell, Albert Camus, Jorge...