“A cheerful morning wind ran through the dense thickets of the Senegal River, causing the grass, not yet scorched by the tropical sun, to noisily ripple and ...

“Our village is poor and small, and you children don’t find anything remarkable in it, but here in the old days a terrible thing happened, which made the end...

“He was lazy, this king of our century, lazy and careless no less than his ancestors; and he could not possibly get round to signing the resignation and a de...

“In ancient vignettes Africa was often depicted as a young girl, beautiful despite the crude simplicity of her forms, and always, always surrounded by wild a...

“As a child, I loved big, honey-smelling meadows, copses, dry grass, and bull’s horns between the grasses...”

This book contains multi-genre works by perhaps one of the most unusual creators in the entire history of literature - Oscar Wilde. An outrageous thinker and...

Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilyov (1886–1921) accomplished a lot in his short life. One of the brightest representatives of the Russian Silver Age poets, the auth...

“There long flames flutter like two golden wings...” Readers of this book have a fantastic opportunity to overcome space and time, stand on the bastions of K...

Gondla is an unenviable groom, he is ugly and hunchbacked, and he is also a Christian, but he is of Irish royal blood. The bride, Lera, is an Icelandic beaut...