A lonely old man and a tender puppy met and became friends. 'Warm friendship and devotion became happiness, because everyone understood everyone and each did not demand more from the other than what he could give.' But grief happened - and the dog was left alone, though among people, and went in search of a beloved owner.

«Дети Арбата» — одно из самых значительных произведений русской литературы ХХ века. Главные герои этой эпопеи — столичная молодежь тридцатых годов прошлого столетия. Верные друзья, тесный кружок — каждому из них судьбой уготован особый путь. Кого-то ждет

just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives include a recently retired couple who relentlessly hunt down fixer-uppers to avoid the painful truth that they can't fix their own marriage. There's a wealthy bank director who has been too busy to care about anyone else and a young couple who are about to have their first child but can't seem to...

Сахарный, белый Кремль — сердце России 2020-х, пережившей Красную, Серую и Белую Смуты, закрывшейся от внешнего мира и погруженной в сон. Этим сердцем понемножку владеют все, ведь и у скотницы, и у зэка, и у лилипута есть хотя бы осколок его рафинадной копии, но на самом деле оно никому не принадлежит.

This text radiates with furnace heat and exudes grave cold — and at the same time. The novel is based on materials from the investigative case of Pyotr Ilyich Nesterenko, director of the Moscow crematorium on the territory of the Don Necropolis. Whi

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...

She would do anything for Father. That's why she takes care of all her little sisters. That's why she runs end-of-the world drills. That's why she never asks questions. Because Father knows best. Until the day he doesn't. Until the day the government raids the compound and separates Piper from her siblings, from Mother, from the Aunts, from all of Father's followers--even from Caspian, the boy...

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...

Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family with five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homeland almost at the moment of her birth.

Nowadays, Andrei Platonov has rightfully taken the place of the leading classic of Russian literature of the twentieth century. This edition publishes one of the most important works for Plato’s entire work, which for a long time remained a ‘brilliant freak’ - the novel ‘Chevengur’, created in 1927-1928, but returned to readers only in the second half of the 1980s.

The collection includes the most famous novels and short stories by Andrei Platonov, including ‘The Hidden Man’, ‘The Juvenile Sea’, ‘The Potudan River’, ‘Fro’, ‘Flower on the Earth’, etc.

Многие персонажи Шекспира стали нарицательными, вошли в наш повседневный обиход – но никому из них в этом отношении не сравниться с юными Ромео и Джульеттойиз средневековой Вероны и суровым венецианским мавром Отелло, превратившихся в символы великой, безграничной любви или жестокой, выжигающей душу ревности.'Ромео и Джульетта' и 'Отелло' – не просто гениальные пьесы. Они будут жить столько же,...