Classic prose

The story of the young Leningrad prose writer “Once upon a time there was a “grandfather”” tells about the Arkhangelsk land, its people, its strict northern ...

When Billy, a handsome, unpretentious, stuttering young able-seaman, is falsely accused of inciting mutiny, he lashes out, kills his accuser and is condem...

Herman Melville (1819–1891) is a classic of American literature, an outstanding romantic writer. The third volume of the Collected Works includes novellas an...

The collection of the famous writer V. Shishkov (1873–1945) includes stories and short stories that vividly depict the original customs of pre-revolutionary ...

Each person follows his own path called “Life”. And it seems to us that it is his path and experience that is unique, unique. This is partly true. And yet, w...

The rhymes are simple. Not long, funny. Take one at a time, two to start with. They don’t give you a headache in the morning.

“The discord between China and the rest of the world reached its climax in 1976. Because of this, we even had to postpone the celebration of the bicentennial...

“Old San Francisco—or, in other words, San Francisco before the earthquake—was divided in half by a line. This feature was an iron crossbar that ran in the m...

This collection includes selected poems and prose (mainly from the emigrant period) by Alexei Eisner (1905-1984) - poet, emigrant of the “first wave”, who la...

The story of the family of a simple hairdresser Cox, who suddenly fell into a rich inheritance.

Reid Main, a talented cybersurgeon and an ordinary family man, will have to ask himself two simple but scary questions: What if you made the wrong choice? Wh...

The three-volume Collected Works of the English writer Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) is the most complete published in Russian. A famous esthete and dandy of the e...