Several well-known cases from the practice of Sherlock Holmes, as presented by his faithful friend and companion Dr. Watson, are adapted in this edition (without simplifying the original text) according to the method of Ilya Frank: they are provided with a literal translation into Russian and the necessary lexical and grammatical commentary. The uniqueness of the method lies in the fact that...

In seiner Dachgeschosswohnung empfängt der Maler und Dichter Fritz Schramm junge Menschen mit künstlerischen Ambitionen. Zwischen ihm und dem Musikstudenten Ernst Winter entwickelt sich eine Freundschaft, die auf die Probe gestellt wird, als Ernst sich in die Opernsängerin Lanna verliebt. Remarques Romandebüt: ein berührendes Porträt des Künstlers als junger Mann und der Beginn einer großen...

Tym razem pośrodku ścieżki ktoś wykopał dużą, głęboką dziurę. Oliver nie zauważa jej na czas i przelatuje przez kierownicę roweru. Kto zniszczył ścieżkę i dlaczego? W trakcie śledztwa Tiril i Olivera pojawia się także stara mapa z dziwnymi znakami. Czy parze młodych detektywów uda się rozwiązać zagadkę?

The twenty-four stories in Amanat, translated into English from Kazakh and Russian, comprise a groundbreaking survey of women's writing in the Central Asian country over its thirty years of independence, paying homage to the rich but largely unrecorded oral storytelling tradition of the region.

An unexpectedly chilling novel from the author of the bestsellers Hana, Tiché roky, Listopád. They call her Cácora and it seems that she was born by accident and as if on purpose. Her father disappeared somewhere during the floods, her mother runs away from responsibility to lovers and alcohol - and the little girl is left hanging on the neck of her unfriendly grandmother, who manages the...

One of the most famous works of Jack London - the story of a dog who became the leader of a wolf pack, overcoming the cruelty of people, the fury of rivals and the severity of northern nature on his way - adapted in this publication according to the method of Ilya Frank: provided with a literal translation into Russian and the necessary vocabulary -grammar commentary (without simplifying the...