“There was a hole in the ground, and in the hole lived a hobbit.” These words were written by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien on the back of a school exam paper he...

Ginger is an amazing plant, the healing properties of which have been known since ancient times. It has expectorant, antibacterial, antiparasitic properties,...

"Puck of the Magic Hills" and "The Fairies' Gifts", books by the famous Rudyard Kipling, included in the collection, gained popularity during the writer's li...

William Butler Yeats - the great poet, prose writer and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate, father of English modernism and his opponent - called his work “tra...

Guy de Maupassant (full name Henri-René-Albert-Guy de Maupassant) is a French writer, essayist, author of short stories and novels, one of the great represen...

Several translators (Natalia Belenkaya-Grinberg, Marina Boroditskaya, Kirill Ankudinov, Grigory Kruzhkov, Victor Kulle, Leonid Sitnik and Alexander Shapiro) ...

Clifford Simak (1904–1988) is one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century and the founders of modern science fiction. His name is well known to ...

A series of lectures on the famous novel by Cervantes “Don Quixote”, read by the greatest Russian-American writer of the twentieth century, Vladimir Nabokov,...

“Lewis Carroll wrote all his life. As a child, when his name was Charles Dodgson, he, as the eldest in a large family, was accustomed to entertaining his sis...