В настоящем издании печатаются повести Н. В. Гоголя, составившие его сборник «Миргород»: «Старосветские помещики», «Тарас Бульба», «Вий», «Повесть о том, как поссорился Иван Иванович с Иваном Никифоровичем». Как указал сам автор, сборник «Миргород» (1835) стал органичным продолжением «Вечеров на хуторе близ Диканьки». «Нет, прошло времечко: не увидать больше запорожцев!» — восклицал один из...

In one of the first twenty-first century Russian novels to probe the legacy of the Soviet prison camp system, a young man travels to the vast wastelands of the Far North to uncover the truth about a shadowy neighbor who saved his life, and whom he knows only as Grandfather II. What he finds, among the forgotten mines and decrepit barracks of former gulags, is a world relegated to oblivion,...

Judy Moody is Monday-morning mopey. Another week in her same-old seat at her same-old desk in her same-old school. Even worse, there aren’t any days off from school for ages. But when she steps into Class 3T, Judy’s Monday frown turns upside down. Pop! Pop! Pop-pop-pop! Mr. Todd is making Monday special by celebrating Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day (no lie)! This gives Judy an idea that...

No encyclopedia can compare to the extremely interesting films about animals from National Geographic, BBC, Animal Planet, Discovery Channel. So why do we need these dry, compared to films, books at all? And why are children so interested in animals? One day… Eureka! I understood… Do you want to know about my discovery? Read the preface! The needs of children, which I understood with my...

В книге 'Вредные советы' Г. Остера серии 'Библиотека начальной школы' собраны самые смешные вредные советы. Они будут интересны и полезны не только ученикам 1-4 классов, но и их старшим братьям и сёстрам и даже взрослым. 'Вредные советы' входят в программу внеклассного чтения для начальной школы.Для младшего школьного возраста.

In Serhiy Zhadan's book, readers will find poems written over many years, directly or indirectly related to the railway. Here, the station square comes to dreams, people who look like snails sleep at stations and carry their own homes on their shoulders, soldiers go to the East to defend the country and return to their families. To the soft clatter of wheels and late horns, passengers count...

When Oksana and her family move from the Ukraine to Florida to begin a new American life, her physicist father delivers pizza at night to make ends meet, her cranky mother sits at home all day worrying, and her flamboyant grandmother relishes the attention she gets from men. All Oksana wants is to be as far away from her family as possible, to have friends, and to be normal—and though she...

Language is not just a collection of words stored in dictionaries, nor an arbitrary set of meanings. Language is a way of thinking and a reflection of reality, it is a picture of the world that our distant ancestors began to draw and our distant descendants will continue to complete. We also take a direct part in its creation, constantly supplementing and improving the background and plot....

Famous for his enormously influential poetry and plays, Alexander Pushkin is also beloved for his short stories. This collection showcases his tremendous range, which enabled him to portray the Russian people through romance, drama, and satire. The sparkling humor of the five ‘Tales of Belkin’ contrasts with Pushkin's dark fable of gambling and obsessive greed in ‘The Queen of Spades’ and his...

Format: 9 x 14 cm, 3.54 x 5.51 inches

Грег Хэффли всегда мечтал поскорее вырасти. Но так ли это круто – взрослеть? Ходить на вечеринки, где бывают девчонки? Мириться с тем, что твоё тело начинает меняться, и не в лучшую сторону? Да ещё домашние взваливают на тебя кучу обязанностей. А со своим лучшим другом Грег в ссоре… Пора взглянуть правде в глаза: в одиночку он со всем этим не справится.

The gritty memoir of a former US Marine and Presidential Guard, who, after being unjustly held and abused in a Russian gulag for three years and freed in a high-profile prisoner exchange, seeks revenge against his former Russian captors by volunteering to fight in Ukraine.