Marine adventures

The manuscript of the story “Billy Budd, the Fore-Mars Sailor” was discovered in 1919 by the American researcher of Melville’s work R.M. Weaver in the writer...

This book will contain the adventure of Gustav, mysterious deaths, psychology. Some situations are taken from real life. Some characters are also taken from ...

Student Vovka Pyatachkov finds himself in a strange Middle Ages. Realizing that he is in another world, Vovka, in the company of two local weirdos, must find...

Will you be ready for life when all your deepest desires come true?

One of the most unpleasant things in life is being in the background for someone. An “ugly friend” who emphasizes the advantages of the “main character.”

In this story, Marusya, tired of her grandmother's strictness, decides to run away to the forest outside their village. There she comes across an old woman's...

The works included in this volume perfectly reveal the versatility of the author’s creative palette. “Evening Conversations on an Island” takes the reader in...

The book "Funny Stories about a Girl Named Tanya" tells about the life of a little girl named Tanya, who always finds herself in funny and unusual situations...

Does revenge always justify the means? What remains for a person who lives only by the thirst for retribution? Whose death will end years of suffering, and w...

Captain Hornblower, after two hard years on blockade at Brest, has relinquished the helm of the Hotspur. He has no ship, only the promise of one. Meanwhil...

"The Last Encounter" is a short story by C. S. Forester, the final chapter in the life of his fictional naval hero, Horatio Hornblower. It was published t...