Untrennbar ist Franz Kafkas literarischer Ruhm mit seinen meisterhaften Erzählungen und Novellen verbunden. Getragen von einer geradezu magischen, schnörkellos und präzise verdichteten Sprache rührt seine Prosa an die Abgründe der menschlichen Seele, an verschüttet geglaubte Sehnsüchte und tief in uns allen wurzelnde Ängste.

Die drei Frauen dieser Erzählungen sind die Bäuerin Grigia, eine portugiesische Aristokratin und die Verkäuferin Tonka. Als fremd-vertraute Wesen werden sie den ihnen verbundenen Männern zum Schicksal. Die äußere Wirklichkeit bildet die Kulisse für eine unergründliche innere Wirklichkeit. Mit dem Erzählband »Drei Frauen«, einem konzentrierten Meisterwerk der literarischen Moderne, begibt sich...

The story of the Nativity of the Savior is not just an ancient wonderful tale. This story takes place in eternity, never ends, but always continues. A story with a thousand faces. The anthology Christmas Classics presents the Ukrainian faces of this thousand. It collects Christmas prose, primarily Christmas and Christmas Eve stories, written at different times by different people - men and...

Seventeen-year-old Debora Rosenbaum, ambitious and in love with literature, arrives in the capital of the new Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Kharkiv, to make her own fate as a modern woman. The stale and forbidding ways of the past are out; 1930 is a new dawn, the Soviet era, where skyscrapers go up overnight. Debora finds work and meets a dashing young officer named Samuel who is...

A native of Prague who wrote in German, he deeply felt his involvement in European culture and firmly believed that ‘the inner world of man is valuable, it is full of secret meanings and senses that only he understands.’ This edition contains Rilke’s most significant poetry books in brilliant translations by Vladimir Mikushevich.

In 1899 and 1900 Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) visited Russia. The impressions from this trip led to the publication of the ‘Book of Hours’, a very unusual work written on behalf of an Orthodox monk. In addition to the ‘Book of Hours’, this edition includes translations of other works by Rilke, Francis of Assisi and Angelus Silesius, allowing a broader look at the work of the German poet....

Москву недаром называют Новым Вавилоном. Множество языков, человеческих судеб и страстей пересекаются в этом удивительном городе. Но порой столкновение традиционного уклада, радушия, гостеприимства и жестоких законов современной жизни приводит к неожиданным последствиям… Все тайны и загадки столичной жизни раскрывают в своих остросюжетных рассказах признанные мастера детективного жанра —...

Tadeusz Borowski’s concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where where the will to survive overrides compassion and prisoners eat, work and sleep a few yards from where others are murdered; where the difference between human beings is reduced to a second bowl of soup, an extra blanket or the luxury...

Anna Akhmatova was born near Odesa in 1889. Christened as Anna Gorenko, she adopted her penname from the family of her mother. She attended school in Tsarskoe Selo and lived most of her life in Saint Petersburg, the city with which so much of her poetry is intimately connected. She frequented the Tower, the famous literary salon of the symbolist poet Vyacheslav Ivanov, and in 1910 she married...

This novel is a testament of what seemed at the time a fairly ordinary childhood, in the bosom of a normal Nazi family in Landsberg.

Аргентинское танго...Танец страсти и чувственности? Танец страсти и опасности! Танец, который привел юную балерину в объятия загадочного мужчины и открыл для нее двери в увлекательный, экзотический мир аргентинской богемы...Однако внезапно возлюбленный бесследно исчезает - и она отправляется на его поиски.

A collection of short stories.