Что говорят нам сегодня имена Амадиса Галльского, Пальмерина Английского, Дона Бельяниса Греческого, Тиранта Белого? А ведь именно как пародия на романы об этих рыцарях создавался «Хитроумный идальго Дон Кихот Ламанчский» Мигеля де Сервантеса Сааведры (1547–1616). И пародия эта на века пережила пародируемый жанр. В 2002 г. согласно опросу, проведенному среди писателей Нобелевским институтом,...

Федор Михайлович Достоевский (1821—1881) — один из самых  значительных и известных русских писателей и мыслителей, которые повлияли на умы не только  современников,  но  и  потомков. В своем творчестве он ставил самые главные, самые трудные вопросы.

Set between 1625 and 1628, it recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan (a character based on Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan) after he leaves home to travel to Paris, hoping to join the Musketeers of the Guard. Although d'Artagnan is

Oedipus Rex, written by the ancient Greek playwright Sophocles, is a timeless classic of tragedy and one of the most well-known works of Western literature. It tells the story of Oedipus, King of Thebes, who unknowingly murders his father and marries his mother, fulfilling a prophecy that he had desperately attempted to avoid. The story is one of fate and its unavoidable power, as Oedipus’s...

Belonging in the immortal company of the great works of literature, Dante Alighieri’s poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of Hell, up the arduous slopes of Purgatory, and on to the glorious realm of Paradise—the sphere of universal harmony and eternal salvation.

For a century and a half now, the adventures of the mischievous and inventor Tom and his friend Huck Finn from a provincial American town called St. Petersburg on the banks of the Mississippi have fascinated and captivated modern readers. An interesting plot and original characters raise this story to unprecedented heights. The publication presents the classic translation by K. Chukovsky....

The cycle ‘Little Tragedies’ was written in 1830 in Boldin, it is dedicated to human passions - subjugating all thoughts and feelings. Every main character is obsessed with such a passion - be it the acquisition of treasures, love, creativity or the thirst for immortality. And each of them is a voluntary slave of his passion, for whom it is not enough to subordinate his personal existence to it...

In Charles Dickens' Christmas Tales, the main characters are fairies, elves, ghosts, spirits of the dead, and among them are ordinary Englishmen, the fairy tale is intertwined with reality, and the horrors of the other world are not inferior to the cruelty of reality. Magical, terrible and moderately morally educational reading.

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...

Martin Eden, who is semi-autobiographical, is Jack London's most significant and unique creation to date. The story of Martin Eden, a poor fisherman who pursues his goals of higher education and literary success passionately and obsessively, is set in San Francisco. Martin Eden was written as an attack on individuality and a critique of ambition by London, who was dissatisfied with the benefits...

The novel ‘The White Guard’ is a story about a ‘troubled darkness’ that fell on our native land, it is a story of a civil war, a terrible fratricidal time, a story of the collapse of traditions and foundations, a story of bloodshed, told through the eyes of an eyewitness and participant in the events.