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...

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...

The incomparable Lesya Ukrainka (1871-1913) wrote her masterpiece, the drama-extravaganza 'Forest Song' in distant lands, when she missed her homeland very much. And to my dear Kolodyazhnyi, where 'on a moonlit night I ran alone into the forest and waited there for Mavka to appear to me. I was fascinated by this image for the rest of my life.' It is evident that this longing inspired the...

Den Novellenband Drei Frauen publizierte Musil 1924 als kleine Sammlung der bereits andernorts erschienenen Erzählungen Grigia, Die Portugiesin und Tonka.

»In diesem Buche des jungen Autors, der hiermit zum ersten Male vor die Öffentlichkeit tritt, werden die geistigen und sittlichen Versuchungen eines Pensionatszöglings in außerordentlich feinen und eigenartigen Wandlungen dargestellt. Es ist ein durchaus künstlerisches Werk, ein in seiner Wahrheit und originellen Anschaulichkeit packendes Seelengemälde, dessen realer Hintergrund das Interesse...