Having been shipwrecked, the navigator Robinson Crusoe, by chance, finds himself on a desert island off the coast of America. Having lived there all alone for 28 years, due to unexpected circumstances, he once left him on an English ship. The famous novel by the English writer Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) about extraordinary adventures Robinson Crusoe in a wonderful retelling for children by Korney...

The main character of this classic novel, Emil Sinclair, is a young boy raised in a bourgeois home, amidst what is described as a Scheinwelt, a play on words that means 'world of light' as well as 'world of illusion'. Emil's entire existence can be summarized as a struggle between two worlds: the show world of illusion (related to the Hindu concept of maya) and the real world, the world of...

Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary and subversive thinkers in Western philosophy, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra remains his most famous and influential work. It describes how the ancient Persian prophet Zarathustra descends from his solitude in the mountains to tell the world that God is dead and that the Superman, the human embodiment of divinity, is his successor. Nietzsche's utterance...

Richard P. Feynman, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, thrived on outrageous adventures. In this lively work that 'can shatter the stereotype of the stuffy scientist' (Detroit Free Press), Feynman recounts his experiences trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and cracking the uncrackable safes guarding the most deeply held nuclear secrets?and much more of an eyebrow-raising nature....

Young Dr. Bromgard has come to a small country town to assume a new practice. No sooner has he arrived than he receives word that a colleague, Dr. Polyakov, has fallen gravely ill. Before Bromgard can go to his friend’s aid, Polyakov is brought to his practice in the middle of the night with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and, barely conscious, gives Bromgard his journal before dying. What...

Lyudmila Ulitskaya's novel Daniel Stein, Translator is a literary sensation of recent years. Huge print runs (and this is about writing a complex, far from fiction), controversy, finally, the Big Book award. Daniel Stein (the hero has a specific prototype), with a risk to his life (he is a Jew himself) saves during World War II about three hundred prisoners of the ghetto. At the end of the war,...

The book, nominated for the Booker Prize, literally exploded onto the domestic book market and acquired not just cult status, but legendary status! A novella in which the theme of growing up is turned upside down and takes on features of surreal humor! A book that hilariously and subtly parodies the very idea of ??a happy childhood. The sensitive and intelligent Sanaev understood everything...

Through the tragic life story of the main character, caught in the monstrous whirlwind of historical events – the revolution, the Civil War – the book depicts life itself, its deep, hidden mechanisms, its mysterious essence, its triumphs and failures.