The series of stories by the remarkable American children's writer Lyman Frank Baum is invariably included in the reading circle of many generations of young...

German writer from the GDR Christa Wolf, winner of many literary awards, including the German Book Prize and the Thomas Mann Prize, is known to Russian reade...

The renovation of a country house, bought by the author for a family vacation in nature, becomes the plot outline for a beautifully written essay about natur...

Ronald Knox is an English religious figure, translator and writer, author of detective stories.

Nina Fedorova (Antonina Ivanovna Podgorina) was born in 1895 in the town of Lokhvitsa, Poltava province. She spent her childhood in Verkhneudinsk, in Transba...

The book by one of the leading researchers of modernity, professor of sociology at the University of Munich, Ulrich Beck (b. 1944), is devoted to a critical ...

Magnus Florin's novel The Garden (1995) is a fusion of documentary and fantasy. Its main character, Carl Linnaeus, is far from his real prototype, although t...

The characters in the story “Summer Sketch” by Christa Wolf, trying to get away from the bustle and problems of city life, buy houses in the village and begi...

In a small provincial town there lived two people: a boy who was destined to be a baguette maker, and a girl who had already become a famous singer as a chil...

Maria Yalovich (1922–1998), the daughter of a Jewish lawyer, managed to survive under National Socialism by hiding from the authorities in Berlin. After libe...

A detailed chronicle of the growing up of a girl from a church-going family: Orthodox gymnasium, weekly confessions and the constant oppression of awareness ...

The book by the German scientist Dieter Lauenstein is dedicated to the largest mystical center of Ancient Greece - Eleusis. Using ancient sources and materia...