Edgar Allan Poe remains forever in the history of literature not only as a recognized master of Gothic-romantic stories, but also as the founder of the detec...

“Words are the wine of life,” once noted the classic of English literature Edward Morgan Forster (1879–1970). A subtle connoisseur and taster of Life with a ...

Why did Brother Yur start stuttering? Did Rodka like Italian cuisine or not? What troubles could force a French hotelier to resort to the help of a Russian w...

George Orwell. In two volumes. Volume II.Essays, articles, reviews.

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The story of a very ordinary person who finds himself in rather unusual circumstances. The hero here is not a hero, there is no trace of “progress”, overcomi...

The further, the more the newly-minted witcher Alexander Smolin plunges into the secrets of the world of Night, and the knowledge he gains does not always pl...

If you are trying to hide from the big world behind the walls of a castle, this does not mean that you will succeed. The fate of a person always depends on w...

They say that after twenty it is no longer very common for a person to change as a person. This may be true, but this statement probably does not apply to th...

Who said that magician's apprentices will have a rest in the summer, when all the studio students are on vacation? This is an unaffordable luxury. And now th...

If you are an apprentice magician, be prepared for the fact that your quiet life is over. All magicians are inherently not the best people. And if you get a ...

Returning home can not always be a holiday, and the students of the magician nicknamed Raven learned this from their own example. After the hardships of the ...

This book can be called a practical encyclopedia. It provides maximum coverage of information security issues, starting with modern approaches, an overview o...