A similar mood 'Old Woman Izergil' was written two years later. In addition to the life story of Izergil herself, it includes legends: about the haughty son of the eagle Larra and about the selfless Danko, offering three points of view: 'to live outside of people and for oneself' - 'to live with people, but for oneself' - 'to live with people and for people. '' Chelkash ', created in just two...

re gates lead to stranger things than alien planets, Elvi Okoye begins a desperate search to discover the nature of a genocide that happened before the first human beings existed, and to find weapons to fight a war against forces at the edge of the imaginable. But the price of that knowledge may be higher than she can pay. At the heart of the empire, Teresa Duarte prepares to take on the burden...

The book is about how ten Soviet women, finding themselves in the same ward of a maternity hospital, suddenly find out that quarantine has been declared in this institution and they will have to spend ten more days within its walls. One of them comes up with the idea of repeating the story told by the Florentine writer Boccaccio: all ten days of quarantine to tell each other about life, about...

The windows between the many worlds have been sealed and the momentous adventures of Lyra Silvertongue's youth are long behind her-or so she thought. Lyra is now a twenty-year-old undergraduate at St. Sophia's College and intrigue is swirling around her once more. Her daemon Pantalaimon is witness to a brutal murder, and the dying man entrusts them with secrets that carry echoes from their...

Inspired by Jack Kerouac's adventures with Neal Cassady, On the Road tells the story of two friends whose cross-country road trips are a quest for meaning and true experience. Written with a mixture of sad-eyed naivete and wild ambition and imbued with Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz, On the Road is the quintessential American vision of...

Mark Twain's first historical novel, The Prince and the Pauper, is a classic adventure of mistaken identity that champions social justice. Set in 1547, it tells the story of two young boys who were born on the same day and are identical in appearance: Tom Canty, a pauper who lives with his abusive, alcoholic father in Offal Court off Pudding Lane in London, and Edward VI of England, son of...

The famous American writer O. Henry (William Sidney Porter) is the author of popular short stories, a master of original plot twists, colorful dialogues and stunning endings. The writer's creative legacy consists of ten collections, or over six hundred short stories, which are something like a humorous encyclopedia of American life at the beginning of the twentieth century. However, O. Henry's...

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.

When little monkey can't find his mother, butterfly offers to help in the search. Little monkey says that his mother is big, so butterfly leads him to . . . an elephant. No, that's not right! Little monkey says his mom is furry, so butterfly leads him to . . . a bat. That's not right either. From then on, little monkey and butterfly meet many jungle animals, but they don't find Mom until little...