When Haymitch’s name is called, he can feel all his dreams break. He’s torn from his family and his love, shuttled to the Capitol with the three other District 12 tributes: a young friend who’s nearly a sister to him, a compulsive oddsmaker, and the most stuck-up girl in town. As the Games begin, Haymitch understands he’s been set up to fail. But there’s something in him that wants to fight . ....

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.

This collection includes stories by I. S. Turgenev from 1854–1860: ‘The Calm,’ ‘Correspondence,’ ‘Yakov Pasynkov,’ ‘Faust,’ ‘Asya,’ and ‘First Love.’ The book's content is determined not only by chronological order but also by the internal connection between these works—the theme of love. Turgenev temporarily leaves man alone with the profound, the primordial, and the eternal, revealing within...

The Petersburg Stories constitute Gogol's finest work, on which his fame is justly based. The plays included in this volume are 'The Government Inspector' and 'The Marriage'.

Антиутопия, которую заслуженно ставят в один ряд с такими знаковыми романами, как '451° по Фаренгейту' Рэя Брэдбери и 'О дивный новый мир' Олдоса Хаксли. Участник межзвездной экспедиции Эл Брегг возвращается на Землю через 127 лет после отлета - представьте, что сегодня очнулся человек из 80-х годов девятнадцатого века, - и попадает в прекрасный новый мир. Мир, где нет старости и болезней, нет...

Экспедиция на Венеру. Этот рейд полон опасностей: планетолет «Хиус» прежде не испытывали в таких тяжелых атмосферных условиях, аномальное геологическое месторождение «Урановая Голконда» недоступно для подхода транспорта, да и загадка гибели предыдущих экспедиций не может не тревожить отважных исследователей.

Other Shores is an autobiographical memoir by Vladimir Nabokov, a Russian-American classic writer, author of the novels The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, The Gift, and the controversial Lolita. The book was originally published in 1951 under the title Conclusive Evidence, three years later an expanded version translated into Russian by Nabokov himself was published under the title Other...

Vladimir Nabokov began working on his first novel, tentatively titled Happiness, in 1924 in Berlin. By the end of the year, the first two chapters of the book were ready, but the writer soon decided to destroy the manuscript. Only a small excerpt survived, which Nabokov reworked into a short story and published in January 1925 under the title Letter to Russia. He decided to return to the...

This is the childhood advice given by an aunt to Russian born writer Vadim Vadimovich, who emigrates to England, then Paris, then Germany and then the US. Now dying, he reconstructs his past. He remembers Iris his first wife, Annette his long-necked typist, and Bel his daughter, as well as his own bizarre illness, 'numerical nimbus syndrome'.

As a young boy, Luzhin was unattractive, distracted, withdrawn, sullen--an enigma to his parents and an object of ridicule to his classmates. He takes up chess as a refuge from the anxiety of his everyday life. His talent is prodigious and he rises to the rank of grandmaster--but at a cost: in Luzhin' s obsessive mind, the game of chess gradually supplants the world of reality. His own...