Встретились и подружились одинокий старый человек и ласковый щенок. "Теплая дружба и преданность становились счастьем, потому что каждый понимал каждого и каждый не требовал от другого больше того, что он может дать". Но случилось горе - и собака осталась одна, хотя и среди людей, и отправилась на поиски любимого хозяина...

'The Fall of the House of Usher' describes the final hours of a family tormented by tragedy and the legacy of the past.

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

The stories in Dubliners show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur theologians, struggling musicians, moony adolescents, victims of domestic brutishness, sentimental aunts and poets, patriots earnest or cynical, and people striving to get by. In every sense an international figure, Joyce was faithful to his own country...

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...

Самый красивый в двадцатом столетии роман о любви...Самый увлекательный в двадцатом столетии роман о дружбе...Самый трагический и пронзительный роман о человеческих отношениях за всю историю двадцатого столетия.

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...

Beautifully illustrated by Iaroslav Erko.

The works included in this collection - from philosophical 'Nausea' to autobiographical 'Words' - to one degree or another unite the main themes of Sartre's work, to which the great existentialist writer again and again turned his whole life: freedom, creativity, self-awareness in the world, death. Moreover, these themes themselves in Sartre are inextricably linked. After all, freedom in his...

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