Once upon a time, man rose above the animal world, gaining intelligence, and since then he has been proud of the height of his position. But is a person firm...

To the first volume of the Collected Works of E.-T.-A. Hoffman (1776–1822) includes “Fantasies in the Manner of Callot” (1814–1819), which made him famous, t...

This book contains stories written by Harry Harrison during different years of his brilliant literary career. Some of them echo the novels that brought him w...

Novels six to ten of the Frax series.

The world is on the threshold of the Third World War. It’s hard to say what it will be like, but it’s certainly not the same as the last two. This is evidenc...

The corpus of letters published below is an interesting page from the history of emigration. The inspirer of the “Parisian note” had a lot to talk about with...

The ancient Greek philosopher Socrates, like Confucius, did not leave his works. But his students, Plato and Xenophon, conveyed to us the philosophical views...

The book “Secrets of Archeology” tells about the many mysteries faced by archaeologists trying to penetrate the most hidden depths of human history. The auth...

The constellation of classics of the science fiction genre is one of the brightest in our Galaxy. And it is impossible not to notice in it a star named Rober...

Hofmannsthal is an almost forgotten name for the Russian ear and eye. But at the beginning of the century it was not so - then it flashed on poster stands an...

"Petersburg noir". Fourteen stories. “Fourteen Shades of Black,” as the book’s preface calls its color scheme. Let the reader not be intimidated by this colo...