The series of stories by the remarkable American children's writer Lyman Frank Baum is invariably included in the reading circle of many generations of young...

Curzio Malaparte (Malaparte is the antonym of Bonaparte, lit. “evil fate”) is the pseudonym of the Italian writer and journalist Kurt Erich Zuckert (1989–195...

Lizonka, the daughter of the commandant of a fortress on the outskirts of the Russian Empire, dreams of love with a real hero. And the dream comes true - Fyo...

In the novels and stories of the famous Italian writer, we are presented with a uniquely individual world, where fairy-tale and real childhood memories are i...

A powerful, breathtaking love story, partly interspersed with a mysterious murder investigation and a heartfelt lyrical narrative. This book will be apprecia...

Modern Russia...The war in the Caucasus made them mortal enemies. Ilyas avenged his sister, and tank captain Oleg unwittingly became the culprit of her death...

This volume of selected prose by the outstanding English writer, classic of the 20th century William Somerset Maugham includes his novel “The Patterned Veil,...

This fundamental study of Chinese mythology tells about the origin of the Chinese, their language, habits, rituals and etiquette. About how the most ancient ...

Written with lively feeling and sincerity, the story of how the girl Anyuta lived before the war, during the German occupation and after liberation, unfolds ...

The tale of a small but very brave mouse, how he defeated the dragon, and other tales

The book introduces the Russian reader to one of the largest prose writers of modern Spain, who wrote in Galician and Spanish. In the work of this original a...

If you decide to master the art of engraving - artistic metal processing, this book is for you. Properties of metals, methods of preparing the material, nece...