Like many of Dostoyevsky's stories, "White Nights" is told in first person by a nameless narrator; the narrator is living in Saint Petersburg and suffers from loneliness. He gets to know and falls in love with a young woman, but the love remains unrequited as the woman misses her lover with whom she is finally reunited.

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...

Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement.

‘The Revolution Betrayed’ is one of Trotsky’s most famous works; the author himself even called this book ‘the main thing in his life.’ Written during forced seclusion in Norway, the book is devoted to an analysis of the Soviet political regime and a forecast of its further development. Without mincing words, Trotsky, in a fierce and categorical manner, settles scores with his main opponent...

The central place in the narrative is occupied by the ideological dispute between the heroes of the novel. They all went through the war and the Gulag. However, one of them remained a convinced communist. Another, Nerzhin, is convinced of the depravity of the very foundation of the communist system. In the past, he himself was an ardent supporter of it, he experienced a complete collapse of his...

‘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...

The best cure for blues and depression. Slava Se is the pseudonym of the Latvian author Vyacheslav Soldatenko, who writes in Russian. He is a psychologist by training and works as a plumber. He also plays the guitar, gives concerts in the theater and writes books... Thanks to his good sense of humor and the quality of his literature, his books are very popular.

Кирилл Кобрин — писатель, историк, журналист, или, по его словам, «пишущий на русском языке европейский литератор и историк». Среди его героев — Венцеслав Холлар, Франц Кафка, Антуан-Жан Гро, Наполеон Бонапарт, Томас Манн, Эдуард Гиббон, сам автор и все мы, к несчастью оказавшиеся в это время и в этом месте.

Никогда раньше Дмитрий Громов и Олег Ладыженский не писали документальную прозу — только художественную. Никогда не вели дневники. Но вторжение в Украину всё изменило. Эти дневники — не фантастика, привычная для Олди. Иной язык, иной стиль — под стать обстоятельствам. Эти заметки писались в обстреливаемых городах, подвалах и бомбоубежищах, эвакуационных поездах и автобусах, на съёмных...

По заданию короля-тирана Селена Сардотин, величайшая в Адарланском королевстве женщина-ассасин, отправляется на континент, где магия еще сохранилась, а не исчезла, как в ее родной Эрилее. В планы Селены вовсе не входит исполнять преступные замыслы короля. Она ищет встречи с Маэвой — королевой народа фэ, ведь королева — единственная, кто может ей рассказать о таинственных Ключах Вэрда,...

Селена Сардотин, наследница террасенского престола, любимица богов, потомок народа фэ, лучшая в мире женщина-ассасин, возвращается под чужим именем в столицу Адарланского королевства, чтобы продолжить борьбу с королем-тираном, поработившим ее страну. Оружие Селены не только верный клинок, она способна управлять магией. Но магия ушла с Эрилейского континента, и первое, что Селене предстоит...