Modern prose

The creator of the inimitable Jeeves and Wooster, the frantic Psmith, the eccentric Mulliners has matured. Now we have before us a completely DIFFERENT Wodeh...

Everybody is talking about Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda!"A remarkable gift of a novel."--Andrew Smith, author of Grasshopper Jungle"I am so in love w...

"Heart-fluttering, honest, and hilarious. I can't stop hugging this book." --Stephanie Perkins, New York Times bestselling author of Anna and the French K...

Selected fables by I.A. Krylova. The fables of “Grandfather Krylov,” whom contemporaries called “the real Minister of Education of Russia,” embody the wisdom...

Strange people, exciting words... All this is around us. Life can be an amazing story, a wonderful story, a romance with an unpredictable ending. You just ne...

This book, unusual in genre, dedicated to the psychological problems of the family, reads like a fascinating story. The relationship between children and par...

Mother and little son. "Incomplete family." Can life in such a family be truly full and happy? Yes maybe. It can be amazing, almost fabulous - if you don’t i...

A terrible disease - diphtheria... An adult son and a little daughter are seriously ill. How can you withstand the test sent to you and your family without f...

A book about how difficult it is to be a child and, at the same time, excitingly interesting! About how life and fate mold a child into a non-standard person...

The playwright and novelist Thomas Bernhard was one of the most widely translated and admired writers of his generation, winner of the three most coveted ...

At the insistence of her parents, eighteen-year-old Ever Wang goes from Ohio to Taipei to a youth camp where Chinese-Americans study the language and culture...

Raymond Lull invented a way to surely rid the unfaithful Saracens of their heretical errors and thereby hasten the Second Coming of the Savior. Cardinal Mode...