A young birch tree grew on the steep bank of a forest pond. She is still too small and the pond is not visible to her over the edge of the cliff. But she can...

Twelve little preludes and two more stories.

A group of village pensioners regularly come up with decent and quiet entertainment, which saturates their ordinary everyday life.

In Nadezhda Nikitina's book there are four stories and a novella, which could be said to represent the adventure genre, if they did not contain significant e...

K.A. From childhood, Kornyakov dreamed of being a long-distance sailor, although he spent his childhood and youth in the remote Arkhangelsk village of Novosh...

The sorceress Zeriti sends terrible nightmares to the capital of Shem. Salvation lies in the silver lotus, for which Conan goes to the upper reaches of the S...

Soviet schoolchildren meet an adult fugitive from the future - the story “On the Shore of the Universe” begins with such an adventure; then the plot intersec...

In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, two women seek to preserve the small treasury of books available to them—a gift of knowledge and hope for future generati...

Robert Merle's novel A Weekend on the Ocean, awarded the Prix Goncourt, is based on autobiographical material and describes the vicissitudes of a soldier's l...

A story about a life that is like a shipwreck. When everything that was dear to you seems to have been washed away by a gigantic wave, is it worth collecting...