Gwen has a destiny to fulfill, but no one will tell her what it is. She's only recently learned that she is the Ruby, the final member of the time-traveling Circle of Twelve, and since then nothing has been going right. She suspects the founder of the Circle, Count Saint-German, is up to something nefarious, but nobody will believe her. And she's just learned that her charming time-traveling...

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Madame Bovary - the most famous and most perfect novel by Gustave Flaubert. Having chosen a very unassuming plot for his book, the author created a work timeless. For the past century and a half, readers have not ceased to worry about the fate of a romantic-minded woman who, marrying an ordinary man, continues to look for all-consuming love, which leads her to cheating on her husband and her...

ck London attracts readers with its sincerity, wealth of imagination, dangerous adventures and extraordinary vitality. At the end of the 19th century gold was found in Alaska, and people from all over the world rushed to find their happiness. A young writer from San Francisco, Christopher Bellew, tired of working too hard for a magazine, goes with his uncle to Klondike to help his relatives....

Before you is a book from the series Classics in School, which contains all the works studied in elementary school, middle and high schools. Do not waste time searching for literary works, because these books have everything you need to read in the school curriculum: for reading in the classroom and for out-of-class assignments. Rid your child of long searches and lessons not learned. The book...

In the book, Radishchev takes an imaginary journey between Russia's two principal cities; each stop along the way reveals particular problems for the traveller through the medium of story telling. The work, often described as a Russian Uncle Tom's Cabin, is a polemical study of the problems in the Russia of Catherine the Great: serfdom, the powers of the nobility, the issues in government and...

Рубен Давид Гонсалес Гальего – русский писатель, внук генерального секретаря Коммунистической партии народов Испании и воспитанник советского интерната для детей-инвалидов. Его документальный роман-исповедь «Белое на черном» (премия «Русский Букер» за 2003 год), переведенный на десятки языков, произвел фурор в среде читающей публики, круги от которого расходятся до сих пор.Прервав...

You will have a fascinating walk with the Author through the Parisian catacombs and through cities that are rapidly changing their appearance. You will find out whether genius is inherited, how the best ideas are born and how masterpieces perish. You have many amazing discoveries ahead: a real writer and a real princess, a real smart woman and genuine heroes of her time, not invented stories...

This gem of Slovak naturalism was written in 1940. The story takes the reader to a mountain village. The protagonist narrates the vicissitudes, suffering, and success he experiences as he pursues a love affair, resulting in the triumph of pure love. Peter has been in love with a girl—Magdalena—since childhood and asks her to marry him. But he is too late, because a rich man, Jano Zapoto?ný, has...

The scholarly journey through storylines explores the ways in which younger writers in Kharkiv (Kharkov in Russian), a diverse, dynamic, but under-studied border city in east Ukraine today, come to grips with a traumatized post-Soviet cultural landscape.

Be Faithful unto Death is the moving story of a bright and sensitive schoolboy growing up in an old-established boarding school in the city of Debrecen in eastern Hungary. Misi, a dreamer and would-be writer, is falsely accused of stealing a winning lotte