One freight train driver helped two dying military personnel using completely unofficial technology. If he'd known the consequences... He would have done the exact same thing anyway. While reading this edgy sci-fi novel about family values, you keep getting the feeling that he's not at all what he pretends to be. Well, you don't.

During the Civil War, against the combined forces of the Whites and the interventionists advancing from Murmansk, Onego and Ladoga lakes were fought by people who were often even without uniforms and sailed on old steamships that were hastily converted to military vessels. This book tells of the heroic daily routine of the conscious defenders of the revolution, of their exploits at the front, of the cherished attitude towards the Motherland and freedom....

«…Стояло начало мая мѣсяца; теплаго, яркаго, цвѣтущаго мая.Всегда красивая Одесса разрядилась вся въ зелень и цвѣты, и глядѣлась въ голубое море словно шестнадцатилѣтняя красавица въ зеркало.Въ желѣзно-дорожномъ вокзалѣ суета, толкотня и шумъ:

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«…– A мне, право, кажется, что ты преувеличиваешь. Тебе самой жилось бы лучше, если б ты не портила так отношений к мачехе и её детям.– Ну, про то мне знать! – со сдержанным вздохом возразила Надя. Но в ту же минуту, спохватившись, что резко ответила

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Everyone knows the effect of dealing with texts of the past as with venerable old people: here we love them, here we respect them, and there and there we tactfully turn a blind eye, because everyone understands everything. In Greenland-Green's fictional country-from any point of view one should not turn a blind eye to anything. It does not become obsolete, but only becomes closer and more modern. Greenland is a territory of freedom that has stood...

The Griboyedov Prize laureate, the play «the Lower Depths» is legally considered to be the pick of Maxim Gorky's creative work. The dramatical piece was the result of almost twenty year author's observation after the impoverished people. The heroes of the play - are the inhabitants of the doss-house, people of hard destiny, who by lots appeared to be on the very bottom of the society. The author's absolute achievement is his try using this ambiguous...

Salomé” - is a work by the Irish philosopher, aesthete, writer and poet O. Wilde (1854 - 1900). One act play was written by the author in French in 1891. It was translated into English and published in London in 1894. The basis of the tragedy - is the story of Salome, the character of the New Testament. Salome - is the stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas, she is the one, who tempted Herod by dancing the Dance of the Seven Veils. To her stepfather's...

The Belkin Tales” by A.s. Pushkin, a great Russian prose writer and poet. It's the beginning of Russian classic literature that is highly valued by both contemporaries and further writers. The series consists of five short stories: "the Shot", "the Blizzard", "the Undertaker", "the Station Master" and "the Squire's Daughter". Each story is written in different genres: "the Shot". romanticism, "the Blizzard", "the Station Master" and "the Squire's...

'A Clump of Lilacs’ by Aleksandr Kuprin, is a short story about real love and faithfulness. In order to help her husband in passing the exam, Verochka is ready to do anything, she does everything without any regret for money or her efforts, her faithfulness and kindness lead to the triumph of justice.

Novellas by Stefan Zweig. Golden classics of European psychological realism of the begging of XX century. They were filmed by geniuses of European and American cinematograph of the times of its «golden age»: Robert Land and Max Ophüls, Étienne Périer and Robert Siodmak. Every novella still enraptures, puts into rage, makes argue with the author and his characters, love them and hate, criticize them and forgive.