European ancient literature

This book is the third edition of a course of lectures on management by G.P. Shchedrovitsky (1929-1994), a Russian thinker, philosopher, methodologist and pu...

Encyclopedia of magical creatures of the Celts and Anglo-Saxons. Compiled from medieval legends and folk tales of Britain and from articles and books by K. B...

“Poor Yorick!.. Where are your jokes? Where are your jokes? - exclaimed Shakespeare, remembering the sparkling humor of Sommers and Tarleton, the jesters of ...

What price can you pay to gain secret knowledge? To be known as a great necromancer, an all-knowing wizard? Are you ready to give your soul to the devil in o...

“The True Comic Life of Francion” by the French writer Charles Sorel (1602 - 1674) is the first picaresque novel in French literature, which opened the way f...

Forty ballads about Robin Hood in classic and new translations with illustrations by Maxim Kantor. The publishing design is preserved in pdf A4 format.

The Decameron, a collection of one hundred short stories by the Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio, is one of the most striking books of the Renaissance. Duri...

“The continuation of One Thousand and One Nights” (1788-1789) is the last work of Jacques Cazotte (1719-1792), a French writer, mystic, Kabbalist and Martini...

Montaigne’s “Travel Diary” was until now practically unknown in Russia. The manuscript, found by chance 178 years after the death of its author, was first pu...

“Take a good look at the dogs; Cog is tired, poor fellow; And Rezvy should be cooked with that basil. And Serebro, you know, distinguished himself in the cor...

Two plays, two sides of William Shakespeare's talent. "King Lear" is a tragedy written on the basis of the Old English legend about the king of Wessex, betra...