Данная книга, написанная доктором исторических наук А.С.Степановым, является первой в серии монографий автора, посвященных развитию советской авиации в 30-х годах XX века, и отражает результаты его многолетних исследований.

The book pops up before the controversy of Libro de Manuel which synthetizes politics and social narration into a new prodigious genre. Themes: threshold between conventional and fantastic, love, dream, sickness, death, infancy, the perfect geometry behind Corta'zar's work: the octahedron.

Includes the plays Mukhi [The Flies], Pochtitel'naia potaskushka [The Respectable Prostitute] and Za zakrytymi dveriami [No Exit].

Aldous Huxley's lifelong concern with the dichotomy between passion and reason finds its fullest expression both thematically and formally in his masterpiece Point Counter Point. By presenting a vision of life in which diverse aspects of experience are observed simultaneously, Huxley characterizes the symptoms of ‘the disease of modern man' in the manner of a composer—themes and characters are...

Six most known short stories by Leonid Andreev.

Основная цель учебного пособия — развитие и активизация у иностранных учащихся навыков профессионального общения на актуальные общественно значимые темы с использованием различных вариантов грамматических конструкций русского языка.В каждом из 14 уроков пособия содержатся тексты по глобальным проблемам современности, задания на отработку лексики, грамматики, развитие речи (устной и...

This reader contains works from modern Russian authors, all of which are very significant in the context of modern Russian literature. All of the texts are accompanied with lexical, stylistic, grammatical and literary commentaries, which give necessary information for activating the memory. Each story has dictionary definitions for difficult words, with example sentences for the most...

This 'ABC' is an indispensable assistant for parents and teachers who want to help their kid learn how to read soon. Large letters, funny pictures, simple, entertaining stories will turn reading lessons into a favorite game.

A fictionalized account of the rise and fall of the Nazi Party during the inflation era. A gripping contemporary novel The Munich museum director Martin Krüger has made himself unpopular. Some people would like to be rid of him. The perjury trial that is being framed against him does not end well for him. But he has friends who try to prove his innocence.

It is a pseudo-autobiographical postmodernist prose poem by Russian writer and satirist Venedikt Erofeev. Written between 1969 and 1970 this book was passed around in samizdat for a long time. The story follows an alcoholic intellectual, Venya (or Venichka), as he travels by a suburban train on a 125 km (78 mi) journey from Moscow to visit his beautiful beloved and child in Petushki, a city...

The adapted text of the popular novel. Includes comments, exercises, keys, glossary, illustrations.