The best authors writing in Russian: Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, Dina Rubina, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Marina Stepnova, Narine Abgaryan, Yana Wagner, Tatyana Zamirovskaya, Sergey Lukyanenko, Eduard Ovechkin, Alexander Tsypkin and other contemporary writers - provided their stories for publication in this ‘This truly unique book brings together stories from our Foundation's wards, along with stories...

In this singular book written during World War Two, Bertolt Brecht presents a devastating visual and lyrical attack on war under modern capitalism. He takes photographs from newspapers and popular magazines, and adds short lapidary verses to each in a unique attempt to understand the truth of war using mass media. Pictures of catastrophic bombings, propaganda portraits of leading Nazis, scenes...

A desperate young man plans the perfect crime—the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old women no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime, to transgress moral law—if it will ultimately benefit humanity? So begins one of the greatest novels ever written: a powerful psychological study, a terrifying murder mystery, a fascinating...

Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horried Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a ‘novel-pamphlet’ in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What emerged was a prophetic and ferociously funny masterpiece of ideology and murder in pre-revolutionary Russia.

Memory Burn, is a coming-of-age story of a queer boy from a Czech industrial town. Torcík’ delves into the recesses of memory in an effort to come to terms with painful memories from his childhood. As a homosexual boy with a slight build growing up in a small industrial town, the protagonist of the story faces severe bullying at school, but his problems aren’t over once he gets home: his...

A term of physiology and neurology, algometry is the science of measuring pain. However, it is not physical pain that Iryna Vikyrchak examines in Algometry, but her experiences growing up in Western Ukraine in the ’90s, emphasizing emotional sensitivity and inner strength, which give way to a philosophical and lyrical reflection on pain, suffering, and empathy as a measurement of our humanness....

В настоящем издании печатаются повести Н. В. Гоголя, составившие его сборник «Миргород»: «Старосветские помещики», «Тарас Бульба», «Вий», «Повесть о том, как поссорился Иван Иванович с Иваном Никифоровичем». Как указал сам автор, сборник «Миргород» (1835) стал органичным продолжением «Вечеров на хуторе близ Диканьки». «Нет, прошло времечко: не увидать больше запорожцев!» — восклицал один из...

История одной маленькой деревни, затерянной высоко в горах, и ее немногочисленных обитателей, каждый из которых немножко чудак, нем ножко ворчун и в каждом из которых таятся настоящие сокровища духа.

The young companion of a capricious elderly American woman becomes the wife of the imposing English aristocrat Maximilian de Winter, tormented by secret sadness, and arrives with him at his Manderley family estate. In a huge gloomy mansion, the people, the walls, and, it seems, the air itself remind the new owner of her deceased predecessor, the beautiful and sophisticated Rebecca de Winter....

«Прощавай, зброє» — один із найвидатніших американських романів про Першу світову війну. Захоплива, частково біографічна оповідь Ернеста Гемінґвея висвітлює жорстокі реалії війни. У ній знаменитий гемінґвеївський телеграфний стиль перемежовується вкрапленнями потоку свідомості, і від того емоції твору сприймаються особливо гостро. Це історія мужності і страху, побратимства, любові та болю....

War. Terrible and hateful. Ernst Graeber - an ordinary German soldier - for the first time after two years of war goes on vacation for three weeks. Three priceless weeks - time to live! He leaves to be at war again - in a city where endless bombing. In th