In the book, Radishchev takes an imaginary journey between Russia's two principal cities; each stop along the way reveals particular problems for the traveller through the medium of story telling. The work, often described as a Russian Uncle Tom's Cabin, is a polemical study of the problems in the Russia of Catherine the Great: serfdom, the powers of the nobility, the issues in government and...

Madame Bovary - the most famous and most perfect novel by Gustave Flaubert. Having chosen a very unassuming plot for his book, the author created a work timeless. For the past century and a half, readers have not ceased to worry about the fate of a romantic-minded woman who, marrying an ordinary man, continues to look for all-consuming love, which leads her to cheating on her husband and her...

ompleted the tragedy a few months before his death. This work was the result of the philosophical and artistic searches of the author - a poet, playwright, prose writer, the greatest scientist of his time, a man of encyclopedic knowledge. The hero of the tragedy, Dr. Johann Faust, lived in the first half of the 16th century and was known as a magician and a warlock who, having rejected modern...

English humor for the Russian reader is inextricably linked with the name of the remarkable writer who conquered the whole world with his novels and stories, Jerome Klapki Jerome. The adventures of the unlucky, good-natured English traveling on the Thames, which Jerome wrote about in his famous novel Three in a Boat, Not Counting a Dog and its sequel Three on Four Wheels, have become well known...

'Rarely, to such an extent, in such complete equilibrium, were two hard-to-combine elements: sympathy for humanity and artistic feeling,' F.I. Tyutchev admired the Notes of the Hunter. In Notes of the Hunter, Turgenev recreates the thin, colorful material of national life: poetry and prose, light and shadows are intertwined here in unique, bizarre images, and nature turns out to be a necessary...

N.V. Gogol is the greatest Russian writer and playwright. One of the peaks of his work, the most famous of his works is considered to be the comedy 'The Examiner'. Since the first production in 1836, the play has not left the stage of theaters around the world and has served as the basis for numerous film adaptations, and the names of its characters have become common nouns. Gogol's plays...

ter, translator, journalist, publisher, the most prominent representative of sentimentalism in Russian literature, a reformer of the Russian language and a major historiographer. His work became a school for the next generation of Russian writers. It was he who found new words and techniques for revealing the inner world of man, the subtlest shades of thoughts and experiences, and in this...

Franz Kafka created a unique art universe - semi-absurd, dreary and creepy, mesmerizing with its own uniqueness, a universe where heroes experience strange adventures, tormented in search of answers to their ghostly questions ... The reader is invited to the famous Kafka novel The Trial, perhaps the most vividly expressing incomprehensible character creativity of the author.

Composed around 730 B.C., Homer’s Iliad recounts the events of a few momentous weeks in the protracted ten-year war between the invading Achaeans, or Greeks, and the Trojans in their besieged city of Ilion. From the explosive confrontation between Achilles, the greatest warrior at Troy, and Agamemnon, the inept leader of the Greeks, through to its tragic conclusion, The Iliad explores the...

Дракула» — культовый роман о вампирах, супербестселлер всех времен и народов. В кропотливой исследовательской работе над ним Стокер провел восемь лет, изучал европейский и в особенности ирландский фольклор, мифы, предания и любые упоминания о вампирах.Роман был написан еще в 1897 году и с тех пор выдержал множество переизданий: почти 9000 на всех языках мира. Его неоднократно экранизировали,...

An adventurous geology professor chances upon a manuscript in which a 16th-century explorer claims to have found a route to the earth's core. Professor Lidenbrock can't resist the opportunity to investigate, and with his nephew Axel, he sets off across Iceland in the company of Hans Bjelke, a native guide. The expedition descends into an extinct volcano toward a sunless sea, where they...