The historical narrative “The Corsairs of Ivan the Terrible” tells about the struggle of the Russian people for access to the Baltic Sea, for their independe...

The story presents a new look at the traditional characters of Russian fairy tales: the Tsar and his children, Baba Yaga, Koschey the Immortal, Vodyanoy, Les...

This book is the first biography of the Moscow prince Ivan Danilovich Kalita (d. 1340), the “collector of Rus'”, the true founder of the Moscow state.

Gottfried Burger's ballad "Lenora", written in 1773, became an example of a romantic poetic work and gave rise to many imitations and translations. Vasily Zh...

Haruki Murakami is the most famous modern author of Japanese prose. Murakami is an amazing writer. His books seem to have no meaning, no well-thought-out plo...

Lukian of Samosata (125 - 180) was born in the city of Samosata (Syria), into the family of a craftsman. He moved to Greece, studied the Greek language, trav...

The volume is based on the contents of the first anthology of Greek epigrams, compiled in the 1st century. before Chr. and supplemented in modern times, whic...

This volume completes the small illustrated collection of Lord Dunsany (1878–1957), the creator of amazing stories similar to parables and clouds. The book i...

In the 5th century BC. The flourishing of Greek tragedy and theater begins. One after another, three great tragedians appear on the historical stage - Aeschy...

This publication is a collection of selected stories by the famous American writer Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1913), who worked in the genre of “scary stories”. ...

Yasutaka Tsutsui (b. 1934) is perhaps the last classic of modern Japanese literature, still unknown to the Russian reader, winner of many awards, including t...