An artistic encyclopedia of the life of France in the 19th century. The dramatic story of Lucien de Rubempre, a kind provincial youth taking his first steps in Paris. ...
The world of a giant car company. A world like a perfect, flawless mechanism. And people here are like parts of a complex mechanism. However, even here they are p...
Bank. A world where, it would seem, apart from money, nothing exists at all. Love and friendship, loyalty and betrayal, decency and dexterity - what is in priority ...
The Promised Land is a novel published after the death of the author. The fate of German emigrants in America. They fled from fascism, using everything possible and not ...
Milan Kundera (born 1929) is a Czech prose writer. Since 1975 he has been living in France. He writes in both Czech and French. "Unbearable lightness...
The satirical story-parable, published by the English writer George Orwell in 1945, shows the evolution of the condition of the animals that were expelled from the barnyard...
The deceitfulness of Parisian life is set from the first story, from the shopkeepers going out of town once a year to eat on the grass, hear the nightingale, copulate at the call.
Old, old song: "When you get home, soldier..." And then what? And then - the country is in ruins. And then - poverty, crisis, despair of some - and frenzied ...
“Love thy neighbor” is a novel about German emigrants forced to wander around pre-war Europe. They hide, they starve, they sneak across borders, many...
Mademoiselle Maria Bashkirtseva died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-five, having lived a short but very bright life. She was an extraordinarily gifted girl...
“The sailboat “Troitsa”, loaded with wheat, weighed anchor in the evening and directed its way to the shores of Dalmatia. She slowly floated along the calm river...