Новая книга Виктории Токаревой. Галерея новых ярких образов. Драма и юмор новых историй. Тонкое восприятие жизни — и при этом трезвый взгляд на любую ситуацию. Настроение новых рассказов современного классика — это сожаление о шаткости человеческих ценностей. Особенно сегодня. И все же автор остается романтиком, который верит и, кажется, знает, как быть…В сборник добавлены три редких рассказа,...

Третья космическая эра. Золушку зовут Линь Зола, и она киборг. Красную Шапочку зовут Скарлет, и она умеет управлять звездолетом.А Рапунцель (в новой реальности — Кресс) семь долгих лет провела в заточении на орбитальном спутнике, в рабстве у королевы Луны.Левана, повелительница Луны, угрожает землянам гибелью, а герои вечных сказок пытаются спасти мир,хотя теперь им чаще приходится использовать...

Вниманию читателей предлагается первая значительная трагедия Уильяма Шекспира — «печальнейшая на свете повесть» о двух юных влюбленных, ценой своей смерти примиряющих издавна враждовавшие веронские семейства Монтекки и Капулетти. Остродраматические коллизии пьесы, возвышенная свобода и глубина чувств главных героев во многом определили эмоциональный мир и ценности новоевропейской любовной...

Oedipus Rex, written by the ancient Greek playwright Sophocles, is a timeless classic of tragedy and one of the most well-known works of Western literature. It tells the story of Oedipus, King of Thebes, who unknowingly murders his father and marries his mother, fulfilling a prophecy that he had desperately attempted to avoid. The story is one of fate and its unavoidable power, as Oedipus’s...

Coming from a provincial working-class family, Platonov wholeheartedly accepted the October Revolution, and the more interesting is the fact that his works convey with unprecedented force a personal ideological tragedy, unusually clearly expressed in ‘The Pit.’ The very idea of building a ‘Common Proletarian House’ turns ‘The Pit’ into a dystopia that is shocking in its power, where the details...

Daniel leads a rich life in the university town of Athens, Georgia. He’s got a couple close friends, a steady paycheck working for a regional airline, and of course, for a few glorious days each Fall, college football tailgates. He considers himself to be a mostly lucky guy-despite the fact that he’s suffered from a debilitating disease since he was a small child, one that has left him unable...

After World War II, Mathilde leaves France for Morocco to be with her husband, whom she met while he was fighting for the French army. A spirited young woman, she now finds herself a farmer’s wife, her vitality sapped by the isolation, the harsh climate, and the mistrust she inspires as a foreigner. But she refuses to be subjugated or confined to her role as mother of a growing family. As...

Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares.

Elisha is a young Jewish man, a Holocaust survivor, and an Israeli freedom fighter in British-controlled Palestine; John Dawson is the captured English officer he will murder at dawn in retribution for the British execution of a fellow freedom fighter. The night-long wait for morning and death provides Dawn, Elie Wiesel's ever more timely novel, with its harrowingly taut, hour-by-hour...

‘The tragic tenor of the era’ is what Anna Akhmatova called Blok. ‘Tenor’ is an idol of the public, a cult hero... That is exactly what A. Blok was in the eyes of his contemporaries. The time refracted in his poetry, Blok's very appearance - added the epithet ‘tragic’. This edition includes Blok's poems that made up the famous Third Book of Poems (1907-1916): the cycles ‘Terrible World’,...

Green Town, Illinois stands at the very heart of Ray Bradbury Country. A lovingly re-imagined version of the author's native Waukegan, it has served as the setting for such modern classics as Dandelion Wine, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and Farewell Summer . In Summer Morning, Summer Night, Bradbury returns to this signature locale with a generous new collection of twenty-seven stories and...

Set in a topsy-turvy world like a holiday revel, this comedy devises a romantic plot around separated twins, misplaced passions, and mistaken identity. Juxtaposed to it is the satirical story of a self-deluded steward who dreams of becoming ‘Count Malvolio’ only to receive his comeuppance at the hands of the merrymakers he wishes to suppress. The two plots combine to create a farce touched with...