История любви, побеждающей все – время и пространство, жизненные невзгоды и даже несовершенство человеческой души. Смуглая красавица Фермина отвергла юношескую любовь друга детства Флорентино Ариса и предпочла стать супругой доктора Хувеналя Урбино, - ученого, мечтающего избавить испанские колонии от их смертоносного бича - чумы. Но Флорентино не теряет надежды. Он ждет – ждет и любит. И...

One of the most influential literary works of our time, One Hundred Years of Solitude remains a dazzling and original achievement by the masterful Gabriel Garcia Marquez, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendiá family. Inventive, amusing,...

Третья книга сверхпопулярной саги "Сумерки"!Сиэтл потрясен серией загадочных убийств: это продолжает творить свою месть загадочная и кровожадная вампирша. И вновь Белле угрожает опасность...Между тем приближается выпускной бал — одно из прекраснейших собы

o the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power -- the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves. Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur,...

The hero of the novel 'Picnic on Ice' journalist Viktor Zolotarev receives an unusual task from a major newspaper: to write obituaries for prominent influential people, although they are all still alive. Gradually, he realizes that he has become a participant in a major game of shadow structures, and getting out of it alive turns out to be an almost unrealistic task...

With his novel 'Picnic on Ice' about the Kiev adventures of the writer Victor and the penguin Misha, Ukrainian writer Andrey Kurkov conquered world literature. He managed to find a good proportion of a mixture of irony, black humor, elements of surrealism and modern reality.

The era in which Andrei Bitov lived ... These are the years of the thaw - a time of hope, a bright entry into literature, and a period of 'stagnation', when the main novel 'Pushkin's House' could only be read in samizdat. And perestroika, and the turbulent 1990s, and transformations in the country - a different breath, changes in life and work. An intellectual writer, a unique interlocutor -...

Два романа английского писателя-фантаста Герберта Уэллса, «Человек-невидимка» и «Война миров», впервые увидевшие свет практически одновременно, в 1897 году, стали своего рода визитной карточкой автора и классикой «литературы предупреждения». История Гриффина – гениального ученого, осуществившего поразительный эксперимент, который навсегда отделил его от обыкновенных людей непереходимой стеной...

Published on the eve of World War I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, Death in Venice tells the story of Gustave von Aschenbach, a successful but aging writer who follows his wanderlust to Venice in search o

Kaffeehaus-Frühling, das von Helmut Peschina herausgegebene Wien-Lesebuch, zeigt die bravourösen feuilletonistischen Anfänge Joseph Roths.

Fairy tales do not end with us and will never end. Over time, the texts get better, and there are more authors, and in general everything is just beginning. Always, every day, at any moment, everything is just beginning, but you probably didn’t know. No illustrations. newspaper paper.

A sweeping novel that takes us from the elegantly appointed mansions of Manila to the secluded private islands in the Sulu Sea, from a kidnapping at Hong Kong’s most elite private school to a surprise marriage proposal at an Indian palace, caught on camera by the telephoto lenses of paparazzi, Kevin Kwan's hilarious, gloriously wicked new novel reveals the long-buried secrets of Asia's most...