“I don’t believe that the past is necessarily in the past. It is eternal, it is always around us,” says Peter Ackroyd. And he proves this to the whole world ...

Nothing is easy in this detective story. Even the physics of what is happening.

The novel is written in the form of memoirs of the English Queen Elizabeth the First, who reigned in 1558-1603. A long, adventurous life is behind us. The Qu...

The collection contains stories about women of different ages. Each of them performs small personal feats on an everyday level. On the very same place where ...

A tragedy about honor. The king liked the young Estrella, who was called by the people the “Star of Seville” for her extraordinary beauty. He wants to take p...

One day, young Dona Maria finds her father upset and crying. It turns out that the young Don Diego came to woo him and, becoming angry at the refusal, raised...

The poetic Spanish drama of the “Golden Age,” along with the prose of Cervantes and the painting of Velazquez, marked one of the peaks of Spanish national cu...

A tourist liner - a "dream ship", as the narrator of this story calls it - is cruising the Indian and Atlantic oceans. But for a person who is fascinated by ...

The main character of the book, a Russian, just like me, ended up in Kyiv on the eve of the revolution and lived through all the events of that time in the c...

The collection “Four Million” (1906) consisted of stories dedicated to New York. Its name was explained in the short preface to the first edition, where O. H...

Welcome to the era of new technologies - an era when we use our smartphones for at least 3 hours a day. We obsess over our emails, likes on Instagram and Fac...

When leaving the morgue, do not forget to turn off the lights and close the door, otherwise, God forbid, the dead will run away. Yana Tsvetkova, who accident...