Nicky is an eight-year-old boy with cute dimples and a brave heart inherited from his parents. But mom and dad suddenly disappear - their flight on a hot air...

"Each of us was unlucky to be born. No matter how wonderful life is, it carries harm, much more than many people realize, and therefore the fact of birth can...

His name is Cesare Annunziata, he is seventy-seven years old, and he has let seventy-two years and one hundred and eleven days of his life go down the drain....

A collection of surprisingly touching, gentle fairy tales, permeated with warmth and the crystal clear light of the author’s magical imagination. These are s...

Biographical essays by the classic of Austrian literature Stefan Zweig about the greatest writers of the 19th century in France (Balzac), England (Dickens) a...

New Year is also a time. And like any time, it consists of seconds, minutes, hours, days... What happens if one of these parts breaks? And who should deal wi...

This collection of stories will appeal to those who entertain themselves on the road by inventing stories about random fellow travelers. Here these stories a...

The first part of the “Eccentric” trilogy, which is based on stories from the life of Lyudka, the eldest daughter of Nikolai and Ekaterina Nikitin, wandering...

The story is an allusion to the work of A.S. Pushkin's "Queen of Spades". Vadim is lucky in the poker game, and he climbs the social ladder quite high.

What motivates a person to go where a viral infection is raging? How does someone feel who holds the hands of dying people in a hospital room? How to allevia...

The most striking and significant phenomenon of French painting in the last third of the 19th century was impressionism. The innovation and ideas of this mov...