Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice’s life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice’s grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate, the Hazel Wood, Alice learns how bad her luck can really get: Her mother is stolen away by a figure who claims to come...

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 Chronicles of Narnia is a series of seven fantasy novels for children written by C. S. Lewis. The Chronicles of Narnia presents the adventures of children who play central roles in the unfolding history of the fictional realm of Narnia, a place where animals talk, magic is common, and good battles evil. Each of the books (with the exception of The Horse and His Boy) features as its...

Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's. In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape-her poignancy, wit, and naïveté continue to charm.

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.

Cat’s Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut’s satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet’s ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist, a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer, and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny. A book that left an indelible mark on an entire generation of readers, Cat’s...

The writer worked on it for more than twenty years, but never managed to finish it. Despite this, ‘The Man Without Qualities’ became one of the greatest works of German-language literature, which, without exaggeration, can be called the greatest study of the human soul. 1913. The government of the Austro-Hungarian Empire is establishing a committee that is to develop a special plan of events...

‘The novel ‘Peter the First’ is dedicated to a turning point in the history of Russia, ‘when young Russia matured with the genius of Peter,’ the greatest Russian emperor and reformer, a figure as significant as he was controversial.

‘Farewell to Matera’ - the story of the flooding of the island for the construction of the Bratsk hydroelectric power station. The village of Matera is destined to sink to the bottom of an artificially created sea - along with the history of entire generations who lived on this land before. Old people come out to defend their small homeland. They cannot come to terms with the destruction of the...

‘Quiet Don’ is a large-scale epic painting that tells the story of the Don Cossacks during the most controversial, turning point period in the history of our country - the bloody First World War and the fratricidal Civil War, when, in the words of Sholokhov himself, ‘in a fight to the death, brother goes against brother, son - against the father.’

‘The story ‘Cancer Ward’ was conceived by Solzhenitsyn in the summer of 1954 in Tashkent, where, after exile, he was treated at an oncology clinic. Memories of this formed the basis of the story. Her heroes are patients of the ‘cancer ward’. Among them are people of all social classes, ages from all over the vast country. Their destinies reflected the state of Soviet society when, struck by the...