The novel tells how Saddam Hussein prepared a terrible surprise for American troops intending to strike Iraq - a secret weapon of enormous destructive power,...

Six novels, two novellas and three short stories from the series about Allan Quartermain. The publication includes almost all of the translated works

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An excerpt from the first chapter:...The illusion persisting, I determined that it was due to the unnatural strain imposed upon my vision, and although I ...

School teacher Thomas Shield, by the will of fate, finds himself involved in the difficult life of the family of his pupil Charles Frant, who introduces the ...

Eric Schlosser has visited the state of the art labs where scientists recreate the flavours and smells of everything from cooked chicken to fresh strawber...

Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) - Russian writer and thinker, one of the greatest classics of world literature. Was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Lite...

Brilliant and scandalous, bright and fearless, magnificent and vulgar... When applied to Alla Pugacheva, any strongest epithet will seem too pale and weak. S...

Under the cover of a moonless night, al-Quaida operatives made their way inside the infamous Camp Delta prison on the American base at Guantanamo Bay, Cub...

I lived a calm life, made plans for the future, but fate had a surprise in store for me... I was a modest elf, and now all the dark elves are looking for me....

At one time, Swedish journalists asked Alla Pugacheva if she knew an anecdote in which Brezhnev was called a minor political figure of Pugacheva’s time. The ...

Allan Quartermain – our hero – and Ayesha (that is, She Who Must Be Obeyed) share the limelight in this great adventure, but oddly enough considering the ...

Edgar Allan Poe. The greatest American writer, a genius of decadence, creator of the detective genre. There were many secrets in Poe's life, among which were...