Subcastes

It is rare that a writer - even among the Immortals - can boast such wild popularity as Jerome Klapka Jerome. No one except Jerome can be sure why exactly he...

“Miss Martha Meacham ran a little bakery on the corner (the one, you know? Where there are three steps down and when you open the door, the bell rattles). Mi...

“If it is not possible to detect a starched collar on a caught thief, we are told that this is a most dangerous degenerate, a completely decomposed type, and...

“There are few female caliphs. By right of birth, by inclination, instinct and the structure of their vocal cords, all women are Scheherazades. Every day hun...

“The warden entered the shoe shop, where Jimmy Valentine was diligently making workpieces, and led him into the prison office. There, the warden presented Ji...

This book is being published on the anniversary... There are anniversaries of glory and victories, and there are anniversaries of shame and torment, annivers...

A man got married. At the very least, he lived with his wife for twenty years. And during these twenty years he gave birth to twenty sons, and all of them, a...

A series of entertaining stories from the life of the English patent office. The author is the owner of a patent office and his only employee (patent attorne...

The Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–90) was one of the most important literary figures of the second half of the twentieth century. During the yea...

The man named Iron Eye had normal vision. He received this nickname for accurate shooting from any type of weapon. And also for the special shine from under ...

The three-meter giants that inhabit the planet Dilbiya are not at all similar to humans. Humanity is trying to establish friendly contacts with them, but the...