Трумен Капоте, автор таких бестселлеров, как «Завтрак у Тиффани» (повесть, прославленная в 1961 году экранизацией с Одри Хепберн в главной роли), «Голоса травы», «Другие голоса, другие комнаты», «Призраки в солнечном свете» и другие, входит в число крупнейших американских прозаиков XX века. Самым значительным произведением Капоте многие счита ют роман «Хладнокровное убийство», основанный на...

An almost forgotten novel and a deeply moving testimony: No one has described the months of collapse in 1945/46 as vividly as the author of 'Everyone Dies Alone.' This book about the confusing time between war and peace, in the Mecklenburg province and especially in the city of Berlin, which was punished for its historical guilt, is a real Fallada in its humanly warm and at the same time...

The writer worked on it for more than twenty years, but never managed to finish it. Despite this, ‘The Man Without Qualities’ became one of the greatest works of German-language literature, which, without exaggeration, can be called the greatest study of the human soul. 1913. The government of the Austro-Hungarian Empire is establishing a committee that is to develop a special plan of events...

These were all just ghosts of the night, phantoms of the mind wandering in the dark. And although he had to see a lot of them and even once during a lonely walk to face Satan himself, the daylight always overcame all this devilry, and then he could lead an ordinary, pleasant life without fear of the forces of the other world.

Martin Eden is an idealistic and self-educated young man who struggles to overcome poverty and a lack of opportunities in a quest to become an educated and successful artist. He hopes to find acceptance in the world of the wealthy and refined, though he finds it hard to shake off his coarse working-class background. Eden falls in love with Ruth Morse, but he feels that he is not good enough to...

The last of London's books published during his lifetime, it involves a love triangle set in California. The main character, Paula, is married to Dick Forrest but falls in love with Evan Graham. The story's sexuality bothered readers at the time but their actions appear rather unrealistic based on modern day standards.

‘Ship Master’ is a real story with real prototypes. In the plot, you can recognize the artistic bohemians of that time: director Oleksandr Dovzhenko, director of Odesa and Kyiv film factories Pavlo Neches, artist, architect, one of the founders of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts, Vasyl Krychevskyi. This is the story of creativity, love, the stormy era of the emergence of cinema and life in Odessa...

The book pops up before the controversy of Libro de Manuel which synthetizes politics and social narration into a new prodigious genre. Themes: threshold between conventional and fantastic, love, dream, sickness, death, infancy, the perfect geometry behind Corta'zar's work: the octahedron.

At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate. This far from civilization they can do anything they want. Anything. But as order collapses, as strange howls echo in the night, as terror begins its reign, the hope of adventure seems as far removed from...

В сборник «Рассказы А.П. Чехова по-русски и по-казахски» вошли 10 рассказов А.П. Чехова в русском оригинале и в переводе на казахский язык

The reader is offered a commented edition of Andrei Bely's novel Petersburg, one of the central works of Russian literature of the Silver Age. The symbolist rethinking of the two-hundred-year-old cultural mythology of Petersburg is combined in this book with the author's original view of the revolutionary events of the early 20th century.