Kobayashi Issa is one of the three great haikai poets. His poems are distinguished by their simplicity and sincerity. He was equally understandable to both t...

When your mother is obsessed with a healthy lifestyle and forces you to eat broccoli, this is bad. It’s even worse when no one is friends with you in class, ...

The famous English pop singer Victoria Kanan, tired of endless tours and a brilliant but empty life, comes to relax at her parents' farm on the Isle of Man a...

Humble worker Addie Tyler cannot be called a rich girl. However, the inheritance that has fallen out of the blue not only does not make Addie happy, but, on ...

The world moves - constantly and unpredictably, just as thoughts constantly and unpredictably flash in our heads. Dreams, hopes, fears, concerns - all this s...

This is the fourth collection of the Independent Association of St. Petersburg authors “House of Playwrights” from the series “Landskrona” (the name of the S...

Stage-Land: Curious Habits and Customs of Its Inhabitants (1889) is a humorous essay by Jerome K. Jerome on the types of stage characters. Translation by L. ...

Duke Villiers and Elinor Montague are as unsuitable for each other as any man and woman can be unsuitable. A frivolous rake, the life of the party, a favorit...

Lisa is just beginning her journey as an artist. The choice is gnawing: to sell to the customer for pennies or give up on the dream. Routine shatters into fr...

On the Stage—and Off: The Brief Career of a Would Be Actor (1885) is the first book by Jerome K. Jerome, in which he shares his experiences of acting on the ...

Radek Knapp was born in 1964 in Warsaw and has lived in Vienna since 1976. He graduated from a trade college, studied philosophy at the university, worked pa...

When Hannah Lowe moved in with her distant relative, the already elderly but active Isobel, she had no idea how her life would change in the near future...