One of the best novels about American bootleggers - liquor dealers during Prohibition. The famous bootlegger Jack Diamond rises to the top of the criminal hi...

The book is a complete collection of works by one of the “small classics” of American literature, Nathanael West (1903-1940). Along with the well-known ones ...

Unfinished juvenile novel written by Jane Austen at age 17.

One of Jane Austen's first works of fiction, written at the age of 15, is a short novel of letters, a subtle parody of the sensitive multi-volume novels of t...

As usual, Chandler’s main character, private detective Marlowe, seeks justice, constantly encounters greed, unprincipledness, crimes of the powerful, and at ...

Raymond Chandler (1888–1959) is one of the most famous American writers who worked in the detective genre. This collection includes the most action-packed, e...

Alexander Livergant is a literary critic, translator, editor-in-chief of the journal “Foreign Literature”, professor at the Russian State University for the ...

The diary of Samuel Pepys (1633–1703), a major statesman, a contemporary of the English Revolution of the 17th century, the Restoration, an eyewitness to the...

The work of Anthony Powell (1905–2000), a classic of English literature of the 20th century, the author of several dozen books, remains almost unknown in Rus...

The collection includes the early works of the classic of English literature Jane Austen (1775–1817). Bright, sparkling, witty, they were created by the writ...