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 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...

Illustrated by Vladislav Erko. In Ukraininan.

Stefan Zweig based his biography of Marie Antoinette, who became the Queen of France at the age of fifteen, on the correspondence between her and her mother, and her great love the Count Axel von Fersen. Zweig analyzes the chemistry of a woman’s soul from her intimate pleasures to her public suffering as a Queen under the weight of misfortune and history. Zweig describes Marie Antoinette in the...

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

ook, Foma Hryhorovych tells the story of how his grandfather was sent with a letter to the queen. On the way, the grandfather met a Cossack, and he confessed to him that he had sold his soul to the devil and that same night will have to pay. Grandfather decides to help him and chats all night, but his sleep overwhelms him and he falls asleep. Waking up, the grandfather realizes that his plan...

Печатается под редакцией эксперта Фонда Набокова Андрея Бабикова с исправлением замеченных опечаток и сохранением некоторых особенностей орфографии, транслитерации и пунктуации Набокова. Теперь это – классика мировой литературы, роман, мимо которого не может пройти ни один ценитель тонкой и умной прозы. Книга вошла в списки главных книг века по версиям Новейшей библиотеки, Le Monde и Time. Но...

Спеціальна адаптація легендарної книги ‘Маленький принц’ Антуана де Сента-Екзюпері стане важливим кроком для найменших читачів у світ пригод і любові до навколишнього світу. Душевний сюжет книги доповнений неймовірними ілюстраціями Сари Массіні, в яких історія оживає та наповнюється барвами.

Зайчик Йозі посварився з мамою: він постійно мусить прибирати, умиватися, а також робити ранкову зарядку! У друзів точно набагато краще, подумав Йозі й просто пішов з дому. Проте вдома в друзів йому чогось так бракувало, що його серце стискалося й боліло...