Taken from the collection: Stories for the curious. From the collection of Alfred Hitchcock. M.: Rosman-Press, 2004; translator V.O. Babkov. The story “The D...

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Many of the books written by Ackroyd are in one way or another connected with the life of London and its past, but this book is entirely dedicated to him. Fo...

Fourteen-year-old Jerry Reno did nothing but refuse to sell chocolates, which were traditionally sold by all school students. But this began the real war. A ...

William Zinsser's book is the most popular and authoritative book in the world on the craft of writing. It went through 30 reprints and sold a total circulat...

When your father and husband, a major banker, are kidnapped by professionals, you can neither contact the police nor pay a ransom, because in both cases he w...

The story of a writer whose wife left him turns, under the pen of the great American neorealist Norman Mailer, into a stunning saga about love and betrayal, ...

The infectious atmosphere of magic, Christmas gifts and traditions - all this has resonated with writers in Western literature, including: Guy de Maupassant,...

Four men, close friends of the late Jack Dodds, a London butcher, met to fulfill his unusual last wish - to scatter his ashes over the sea. Despite such a si...

Harry Potter is looking forward to the end of the holidays and the start of the fifth school year at Hogwarts. The young wizard suffers from loneliness more ...