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.

The House of a Thousand Floors is one of the earliest science-fiction novels in European literature, published first in 1929. Besides being a pioneer in its genre, the book is highly regarded for its general merits as psychological literature. The novel t

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

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.

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...

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...

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Stirlitz, the legendary Soviet intelligence officer. Max Otto von Stirlitz (Colonel Maxim Maximovich Isaev) won the love of millions of readers and became a truly national hero. Jokes tell about him and continue to argue about his prototypes. For many years, Julian Semenov received letters from readers with an address on the envelope: 'Moscow, the Union of Writers, Semenov for...