“The past is another country: everything is different there.” After half a century, the aging bachelor gentleman Lionel Colston recalls the nineteen days tha...

In all the works included in this collection, there is a theme of religious faith. Religion leaves a noticeable imprint on the worldview and behavior of the ...

Most readers associate the name of Leslie Powles Hartley with the wonderful novel “The Go-Between,” but few know that he began his career precisely as the au...

And yet he didn’t do it quite like Russian! Maybe, indeed, only because “the ruler is weak and crafty”? But this book will rather lead to another thought: it...

From the 749 stories he read about ghosts and apparitions, the famous English writer Roald Dahl selected 14 of the most interesting. Now you hold them in you...

A devoted admirer who simply lives in his novels goes to meet the writer...

On the threshold of the house of Thomas Knight, a teacher of English literature and a lover of Shakespeare, a woman completely unknown to him is murdered. Th...

Subtle, ironic, paradoxical, incorporating the best traditions of English short stories, the works of L.P. Hartley (1895–1972) have long been included in the...

Peter Parker was an ordinary high school student until a strange incident in the laboratory changed his life forever. One bite from a radioactive spider and ...

I'm a rough man living alone in a shack, and I never ask the same woman out twice. But my mail order bride is here, and she's ready for marriage. She's ready...