In the summer of 1954, bailiffs Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule arrive at Ashcliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane to investigate the mysterious disappearan...

This collection includes ALL of Orwell's novels. "Days in Burma" is a harsh and mocking work about the "white colonialists" of the East, united in a sense of...

Six months after he lost his wife and two sons in a plane crash, Professor David Zimmer sits in an alcoholic stupor in front of the television - and suddenly...

The author takes us to Amsterdam in the 17th century, to the house of a very wealthy merchant Johan Brandt. Nella Oortman, who has been wooed to Brandt, come...

An unusual interpretation of Chekhov's “Lady with a Dog.” Late 19th century. Yalta. A holiday romance unexpectedly develops into a real feeling between two m...

The heroes of these stories and tales, despite all the dissimilarity of the plots, are connected by common musical themes. The farther away, the more distinc...

1967 Odelle Bastien starts working at the Skelton Institute, and at the same time her affair with Laurie Scott begins. 1936. Olive, the daughter of art deale...

In a sense, this is a mystery book, a game book. The author has put together a puzzle of Eastern poetry and Western prose... or vice versa. The clue to the n...

You can force yourself to watch a boring movie. You can forcefully swallow some “useful” rubbish. But poems are not written to order. They are generally writ...

“Good Bad Books”, “Revenge Deceives Expectations”, “The Triumph of Open Fire”, “Can Socialists Be Happy?”, “Books Against Cigarettes”, “Hanging”...Orwell’s e...