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.

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley about the young student of science Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque but sentient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty.

»Buddenbrooks« erschien 1901 und war Thomas Manns erster Roman. Bis heute zählt die bewegende Geschichte der Kaufmannsfamilie aus Lübeck zu den meistgelesenen Klassikern der deutschen Literatur.

The story revolves around Dorian Gray, a youthful and affluent individual who possesses a portrait that ages in his place. Unrestrained, Dorian indulges in various pleasures and debaucheries, eventually descending into the realm of murder. Despite his immoral actions, Dorian retains his youth and beauty while the portrait progressively reflects his moral decay and malevolence. Similar to...

Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order–all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls.

Heiligabend im Haus des Medizinalrats Stahlbaum: Auf dem reichen Gabentisch findet sich auch ein Nussknacker, den die kleine Marie sofort ins Herz schließt. Um Mitternacht erwachen die neuen Spielzeuge zum Leben …