From historical, folklore and even fantastic stories - to psychologically subtle stories about modern morals and parables with acute social and ethical impli...

By chance and by the arbitrariness of the spiritual and secular authorities, half-educated schoolboy Yuras Bratchik takes on the role of the Messiah. Wanderi...

At the center of the story “Free Horses” is the conflict between the young huntsman Andrei Bratko and the senior game warden Temnikov, who, in fact, became t...

Although this book is similar to a reference book and contains a lot of information about the life and work of Jewish sages of different eras, it is still in...

Harold Robbins is also known as Francis Kane; The writer was born in New York. He spent his childhood in an orphanage. After graduating from school, he chang...

Documentary story

Karl Spindler (1796-1855) - German writer, author of the novels “Bastard”, “Jew”, “Jesuit”, “Invalid” and others. For a long time the Germans called him thei...

Samuel Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961) is one of the most popular American writers, a classic of the detective genre, the creator of a literary movement later c...

“I have never written detective stories, perhaps this is the first and last. I just suddenly wanted to dive into a new genre for myself and diversify it in m...

St. Petersburg writer and scientist Alexander Laskin offers his view of St. Petersburg-Leningrad of the twentieth century - the history (including the histor...

“Crocodile Library” is a series of brochures prepared by the editors of the famous satirical magazine “Crocodile”. Each issue of the series, with the excepti...