The Stranger is the debut work of a young writer, a kind of creative manifesto. The concept of absolute freedom is the main postulate of this manifesto. The hero of this story is on trial for a murder he committed for the most stupid of all possible reasons. And this is the truth that the hero is not afraid to throw in the face of his judges, go against everything, forget about all conventions...

Vladimir Nabokov called Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina 'one of the greatest love stories in world literature'. Set in imperial Russia, Anna Karenina is a rich and complex meditation on passionate love and disastrous infidelity.

A lonely old man and a tender puppy met and became friends. 'Warm friendship and devotion became happiness, because everyone understood everyone and each did not demand more from the other than what he could give.' But grief happened - and the dog was left alone, though among people, and went in search of a beloved owner.

The comedy of A.S. Griboedov 'Woe from Wit' was already written over a century and a half ago, but a picturesque picture of morals, a gallery of living types and eternally sharp irony still excite and captivate readers, teach them dignity and nobility. The true peak of Russian drama at the beginning of the 19th century, the play Woe from Wit, has been known to us since school years. But today...

'The Fall of the House of Usher' describes the final hours of a family tormented by tragedy and the legacy of the past.

The Glass Bead Game is an ultra-aesthetic game which is played by the scholars, creamed off in childhood and nurtured in elite schools, in the province of Castalia. The Master of the Glass Bead Game, Joseph Knecht, holds the most exalted office in Castali

The stories in Dubliners show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur theologians, struggling musicians, moony adolescents, victims of domestic brutishness, sentimental aunts and poets, patriots earnest or cynical, and people striving to get by. In every sense an international figure, Joyce was faithful to his own country...

Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own. When they land jobs on a ranch in the Salinas Valley, the fulfillment of their dream seems to be within their grasp. But even George cannot guard Lennie from the provocations of a...

Nowadays, Andrei Platonov has rightfully taken the place of the leading classic of Russian literature of the twentieth century. This edition publishes one of the most important works for Plato’s entire work, which for a long time remained a ‘brilliant freak’ - the novel ‘Chevengur’, created in 1927-1928, but returned to readers only in the second half of the 1980s.

The collection includes the most famous novels and short stories by Andrei Platonov, including ‘The Hidden Man’, ‘The Juvenile Sea’, ‘The Potudan River’, ‘Fro’, ‘Flower on the Earth’, etc.

The year is 1928. On the outskirts of a large German city, three young men are earning a thin and precarious living. Fully armed young storm troopers swagger in the streets. Restlessness, poverty, and violence are everywhere. For these three, friendship i

‘Quiet Don’ is a large-scale epic painting that tells the story of the Don Cossacks during the most controversial, turning point period in the history of our country - the bloody First World War and the fratricidal Civil War, when, in the words of Sholokhov himself, ‘in a fight to the death, brother goes against brother, son - against the father.’