The famous children's writer Nikolai Nikolaevich Nosov wrote not only short stories, novellas, and novels, but he also composed poems. He wrote about his beloved character Dunno and his friends – Gunka, Toropyzhka, Znaika, Pilyulkin... The book ‘Poems about Dunno and other little people’ contains all the poems about the little boys and girls. For preschool age.

‘The year is 2033. A devastating war that turned the world into a radioactive wasteland forced Muscovites to seek refuge in the subway. Over the years, its stations have become real states that trade or wage war with each other. On the surface, mutant monsters roam the ruins of the metropolis, and below, in the tunnels, terrible things are happening. Artyom, a resident of VDNKh station, must...

‘The collection includes three works: the novellas ‘Notes from Underground’ (1864), ‘The Eternal Husband’ (1870), and the short story ‘Bobok’ (1873). ‘Notes from Underground’ is perhaps the most prophetic of all of Dostoevsky's works. In it, the writer largely anticipated the ideas of the 20th century, including the prose of Camus and Sartre, and for the first time showed that the...

This book is highly recommended as a reference book for family reading and for use in all educational institutions. And as for government officials and other persons in positions of power, they should consider it their duty to familiarize themselves with this work, lest their exercise of power turn into an even greater misfortune for the Fatherland.

This novel, which has had a tremendous influence not only on Russian but also on world culture, has been adapted into films numerous times both in Russia and abroad. Prince Nekhlyudov, an intelligent and jaded aesthete and sybarite, is horrified to recognize in court the prostitute accused of poisoning a client as Katyusha Maslova – the pure, gentle girl he had seduced out of boredom years...

Of Human Bondage is the first and most autobiographical of Maugham's novels. It is the story of Philip Carey, an orphan eager for life, love and adventure. After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris as a would-be artist, Philip settles in London to train as a doctor. And that is where he meets Mildred, the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a...

‘The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ is a classic of ‘horror literature,’ a work whose popularity only increases with time. This short novel about a Victorian scientist who conducts a daring and dangerous experiment on himself, thereby unleashing his dark ‘self’ from the depths of his subconscious – the sinister villain and murderer Mr. Hyde – continues to stir minds and hearts,...

Thirteen contemporary writers writing in Russian have created thirteen short stories about the customs and traditions in their cultures: diverse, yet nevertheless based on the same phenomena and processes. Coming of age (for example, through a computer game, as in Dasha Blagova's story), choosing a profession (becoming a shepherd or a vlogger, as in Islam Khanipaev's text), marriage (between...

E. Jabbarova's new novel is a branching narrative where the plot lines initially seem unrelated, but ultimately converge. What does it mean to find a home, and what does it mean to lose it? How is a family history formed? What makes people feel closeness and kinship with one another? Grappling with these questions, the characters are in constant, intense motion – in a desperate attempt to...

When Elina makes her annual summer pilgrimage to her remote family farm in Lapland, she has three days to catch the pike in a local pond or she and the love of her life will both die. This year her task is made more difficult by the intervention of a host of deadly supernatural creatures and a murder detective on her tail. Can Elina catch the pike and put to rest the curse that has been...