Множество источников разной степени достоверности утверждают, что однажды при встрече с автором «Хижины дяди Тома» Авраам Линкольн якобы произнес такую фразу: «Эта маленькая леди начала великую войну». Роман американской писательницы Гарриет Бичер-Стоу (1811–1896) очень быстро приобрел мировую известность и признание. Написанная в характерном для девятнадцатого века сентиментальном стиле...

The work of the famous English writer Jane Austen, the author of elegant and witty novels PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, MANSFIELD-PARK, EMMA, has had a significant impact on the development of English prose of the XIX-XX centuries and has been enjoying increasing

Перед вами — величественное шестикнижие 'Песнь льда и огня'. Эпическая, чеканная сага о мире Семи Королевств. О мире суровых земель вечного холода и радостных земель вечного лета. Мире лордов и героев, воинов и магов, чернокнижников и убийц — всех, кого свела воедино Судьба во исполнение древнего пророчества. О мире опасных приключений, великих деяний и тончайших политических интриг.

В книгу включена не только легендарная повесть-притча Оруэлла 'Скотный двор', но и эссе разных лет – 'Литература и тоталитаризм', 'Писатели и Левиафан', 'Заметки о национализме' и другие.Что привлекает читателя в художественной и публицистической прозе этого запретного в тоталитарных странах автора?В первую очередь – острейшие проблемы политической и культурной жизни 40-х годов XX века, которые...

The Witcher returns in this action-packed sequel to The Tower of Swallows, in the New York Times best-selling series that inspired The Witcher video games. After walking through the portal in the Tower of Swallows while narrowly escaping death, Ciri finds herself in a completely different world...an Elven world. She is trapped, with no way out. Time does not seem to exist, and there are no...

When New Yorker Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humble family home and quality time with the man she hopes to marry. But Nick has failed to give his girlfriend a few key details. One, that his childhood home looks like a palace; two, that he grew up riding in more private planes than cars; and three, that he just happens...

The sand-blasted world of Arrakis has become green, watered, and fertile. Old Paul Atreides, who led the desert Fremen to political and religious domination of the galaxy, is gone. But for the children of Dune, the very blossoming of their land contains the seeds of its own destruction. The altered climate is destroying the giant sandworms, and this in turn is disastrous for the planet's...

It is a very short list of 20th-century American plays that continue to have the same power and impact as when they first appeared - 57 years after its Broadway premiere, Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire is one of those plays. The story famously recounts how the faded and promiscuous Blanche DuBois is pushed over the edge by her sexy and brutal brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski....

Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, each line a glimpse into a child's...

'A poet in Russia is more than a poet' - these winged lines from the poem 'Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station' by Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko, the famous poet of the 'sixties', could become an epigraph to his work. A rebel, a dreamer, an orator and a tribune, he praised the poetry that rushed 'into the attack of the streets', and was one of those whose creativity was a breath of...

‘В земле была нора, а в норе жил хоббит’. Эти слова написал Джон Рональд Руэл Толкин на обороте школьной экзаменационной работы, которую проверял одним жарким летним днем. И кто бы мог подумать, что именно из них, как из волшебного зернышка, произрастет одно из самых известных произведений мировой литературы.

'June' by Dmitry Bykov is, as always, a vivid experiment. Three different stories are united by time and place. The end of the thirties and the middle of 1941. IFLI students, returning from exile, a mad philologist who thinks he has found a way to influence major decisions in the country through text. There is a premonition of war in the air, which the heroes of the novel both fear and rush....