His tales of the supernatural defy both allegorical interpretations and scientific explanations. They cannot be reduced to either Aesop or H.J. Wells. They n...

“Tales of the Three Hemispheres,” published in 1919, belongs to a turning point in Dunsany’s work. From short stories he moved in the 1920s to novels - marve...

The famous Persian fairy tale about the love of a noble beggar and a princess received a new breath in the 20th century under the pen of Ahmed Abdullah. In 1...

In the third novel, Colonel Pyat dreams and plans his way from New York to Hollywood, from Cairo to Marrakesh, from cult success to the lowest reaches of sex...

The pages of this collection of mysterious and mystical stories contain stories from American and English writers of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Stori...

Welcome to a real Irish pub - Gavagana Bar, The Strangest Establishment In The Observable Universe! Here you will find amazing regulars and just random visit...

With the beginning of the revolution, the incorrigible adventurer Maxim Arturovich Pyatnitsky, Colonel Pyat, finds himself in a very difficult situation. Hav...

Meet Maxim Arturovich Pyatnitsky, also known as “Pyat”. A Tsarist rebel, a Nazi robber, a swindler wanted on all continents and a reactionary counterintellig...

The collection, compiled in 2004, includes translations of three (out of four) plays originally published in 1917 under the title Plays of gods and men.  Fan...

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His tales of the supernatural defy both allegorical interpretations and scientific explanations. They cannot be reduced to either Aesop or H.J. Wells. They n...