el centers on the Compson family, former Southern aristocrats who are struggling to deal with the dissolution of their family and its reputation. The novel is separated into four distinct sections. The first, April 7, 1928, is written from the perspective of Benjamin Benjy Compson, a 33-year-old man with severe mental handicaps. The second section, June 2, 1910, focuses on Quentin Compson,...

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.

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...

В сборнике представлены знаменитая сатирическая повесть Подпоручик Киже и роман Смерть Вазир-Мухтара, повествующий о трагической судьбе одного из самых удивительных и талантливых людей России Александра Грибоедова.

Бешеный успех, который обрушился на Илью Ильфа и Евгения Петрова после публикации ‘Двенадцати стульев’ (1928), побудил соавторов ‘воскресить’ своего героя, неунывающего и обаятельного афериста Остапа Бендера, и взяться за создание романа ‘Золотой теленок’ (1931). На этот раз ‘великий комбинатор’ разрабатывает операцию по отъему денег у подпольного миллионера Корейко. Искрометный юмор,...

This book contains the best sayings of Mark Twain: about money and work, about age and habits, about God and the Bible, about truth and lies - and about everything else. Many of them are published for the first time.

The novel 'Doctor Zhivago' is one of the outstanding readings of Russian literature, which for many years remained closed to a wide circle of circles in the country who know about it only from scandalous and unscrupulous party criticism. The insecurity and immortality of a creative person, an intellectual and the turning points in the life of our people are the central theme of the final...