“I am not a fatalist, but one sectarian belief arouses in me a gloomy confidence: death takes away a person when everything, both good and bad, that life cou...

“God has given me the greatest misfortune that can befall a writer—to be sincere. I will not argue whether I have talent or not, whether what I have written ...

“Somewhere, of course, in the desert, as a good legend says, there lived a stern and pious old man. Dry, black, with a gray beard down to his knees, with eye...

“I’m only thirty years old, and when I look back, it seems to me as if I were walking through some huge cemetery and saw nothing but graves and crosses. Soon...

“It’s heavy and vague in a person’s soul. Like a cat that was taken in a bag far from home and released in the middle of an unfamiliar road, he stands in lif...

A story from the irrevocable past (From the era of the 70s)

Inspector Roger West is investigating the death of an Australian company's ship. As it turns out later, a group of attackers is trying to take revenge on thi...

The book by Bernard Malamud (1914–1986) depicts mainly the fate of Jewish immigrants to the United States. The typical hero of Malamud’s tragic and farcical ...

An original fairy tale, unlike anything else, written by the Romanian writer Octave Pancu-Yash. The father went to the forest tailors to sew a jacket for his...

The book “Funny School Stories” includes funny stories by favorite children's writers V. Dragunsky, V. Golyavkin, L. Kaminsky and many others, dedicated to n...

“Memoir-essay about the English soul” - this is how M. Lyubimov defined the genre of his book. This lively and entertainingly written narrative about England...

This book was not written by a writer. The author - Hero of the Soviet Union M. P. Devyatayev - recalls on its pages about his participation in the great bat...