The pages of the book will revive the St. Petersburg streets of the 19th century, you will get acquainted with the customs of the inhabitants of St. Petersburg. And quite in the spirit of Nikolai Gogol, you will learn about the life of bureaucratic Petersburg and the adventures of Mr. Golyadkin. See the big picture of an ideal humanity and moral decline among people.

don. And, together with her faithful puppy, Eddie, she is determined to follow even the slightest scent of a mystery - no matter what! In Book 5 of the Maisie Hitchins series, Maisie is intrigued by a new lodger, Mr Fred Grange, who isn't quite what he seems...Mr Grange claims to work as a clerk for a biscuit company, but he's out and about on the London streets at odd hours, and Maisie soon...

The hero of the novel 'Picnic on Ice' journalist Viktor Zolotarev receives an unusual task from a major newspaper: to write obituaries for prominent influential people, although they are all still alive. Gradually, he realizes that he has become a participant in a major game of shadow structures, and getting out of it alive turns out to be an almost unrealistic task...

With his novel 'Picnic on Ice' about the Kiev adventures of the writer Victor and the penguin Misha, Ukrainian writer Andrey Kurkov conquered world literature. He managed to find a good proportion of a mixture of irony, black humor, elements of surrealism and modern reality.

'Июнь' Дмитрия Быкова — как всегда, яркий эксперимент. Три разные истории объединены временем и местом. Конец тридцатых и середина 1941-го.

The beginner's Russian language course is comprised of two parts (1.1 & 1.2). It is designed for an average of 80-120 hours of classroom instruction. Each part includes a textbook, a workbook (with keys to the exercises), and an audio component. QR-codes with links to the appropriate audio recordings are placed in the text of the books.

The young companion of a capricious elderly American woman becomes the wife of the imposing English aristocrat Maximilian de Winter, tormented by secret sadness, and arrives with him at his Manderley family estate. In a huge gloomy mansion, the people, the walls, and, it seems, the air itself remind the new owner of her deceased predecessor, the beautiful and sophisticated Rebecca de Winter....

Ijon Tichy is the only human who knows for sure whether the self-programming robots on the moon are plotting a terrestrial invasion. But a highly focused ray severs his corpus collosum. Now his left brain can’t remember the secret and his uncooperative right brain won’t tell. Tichy struggles for control of the lost memory and of his own two warring sides.

A poignant story of canine friendship and devotion.

'The Hour of the Bull' is a novel in which a fascinating adventure story harmoniously combines with the unique philosophical and ethical concept of the author, who innovatively rethought the dystopian genre. The story of the expedition of earthlings of the distant future to the planet Tormans, inhabited by the descendants of people who fled the Earth long ago, where as a result a society was...

Cinder, the cyborg mechanic, returns in the second thrilling installment of the best-selling Lunar Chronicles. She's trying to break out of prison - even though if she succeeds, she'll be the Commonwealth's most wanted fugitive. Halfway around the world, Scarlet Benoit's grandmother is missing. It turns out there are many things Scarlet doesn't know about her grandmother or the grave danger she...