Йозеф Рот (1894—1939) — выдающийся австрийский писатель, классик мировой литературы ХХ века. Стефан Цвейг писал, что у Йозефа Рота «была русская натура, я сказал бы даже, карамазовская, это был человек больших страстей» и «ему были свойственны русская глубина чувств, русское истовое благочестие».«Марш Радецкого» — это история трех представителей семейства фон Тротта, преданных слуг австрийской...

Zweigs frühe Erzählung entstand 1913 und wurde noch im gleichen Jahr publiziert, erscheint hier aber in der von ihrem Autor überarbeiteten Fassung des Buchdrucks von 1925, die Zweig um zahlreiche, »aus seiner späteren Sicht offenbar allzu ›expressive‹ Passagen gekürzt« hat, so der Herausgeber Michael Scheffel. Die beklemmende Atmosphäre der Geschichte, in der die Hauptfigur von einer ihr...

The Stranger is the debut work of a young writer, a kind of creative manifesto. The concept of absolute freedom is the main postulate of this manifesto. The hero of this story is on trial for a murder he committed for the most stupid of all possible reasons. And this is the truth that the hero is not afraid to throw in the face of his judges, go against everything, forget about all conventions...

The comedy of A.S. Griboedov 'Woe from Wit' was already written over a century and a half ago, but a picturesque picture of morals, a gallery of living types and eternally sharp irony still excite and captivate readers, teach them dignity and nobility. The true peak of Russian drama at the beginning of the 19th century, the play Woe from Wit, has been known to us since school years. But today...

The Glass Bead Game is an ultra-aesthetic game which is played by the scholars, creamed off in childhood and nurtured in elite schools, in the province of Castalia. The Master of the Glass Bead Game, Joseph Knecht, holds the most exalted office in Castali

Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own. When they land jobs on a ranch in the Salinas Valley, the fulfillment of their dream seems to be within their grasp. But even George cannot guard Lennie from the provocations of a...

‘Quiet Don’ is a large-scale epic painting that tells the story of the Don Cossacks during the most controversial, turning point period in the history of our country - the bloody First World War and the fratricidal Civil War, when, in the words of Sholokhov himself, ‘in a fight to the death, brother goes against brother, son - against the father.’

Illustrated by Vladislav Erko. In Ukraininan.

Beautifully illustrated by Iaroslav Erko.

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) - a famous American poet, novelist, critic, journalist. His influence as a writer and poet on world literature is enormous: it is Charles Baudelaire, French symbolism and almost the entire Russian Silver Age. , the novel 'The S

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (or, in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the Great Ame