The main character, a young man of twenty-five years old named Vadim, arrives for the New Year holidays at his parents' house, in his home provincial town. F...

Marcel Proust's critical articles on art, collected by him in the book “In Memory of the Murdered Churches,” are largely the writer's response to the theorie...

The award-winning novel by contemporary Canadian-British writer Rachel Cusk (born 1968) consists of ten meetings and conversations. During the unbearably hot...

“There are three beautiful sights in the world: a galloping horse, a dancing woman and a ship in full sail,” said Honore de Balzac. “The ship is the only hum...

Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (1898–1948) is considered one of the greatest directors of world cinema throughout its existence. In addition, over the past d...

This book, which has gone through five editions, has all the key characteristics of a modern textbook on social psychology. It comprehensively covers approac...

The main thing that distinguishes this book from many others is its amazing atmosphere of kindness. Even cunning, which usually evokes not the most pleasant ...

The book, based on medieval written sources and a synthesis of accumulated archaeological materials, recreates the main features of the historical developmen...

This book is about my most important thing, about my most intimate, about my searches and discoveries... About the strongest transcendental experience, which...

For middle school age. Artist Nadezhda Vladimirovna Kuznetsova.

John Keith Laumer (1925–1993) was an American science fiction writer who gained fame as a talented, inventive, and prolific author. He used almost the entire...

Civilization is a Tarot deck, which is intricately shuffled by higher powers. One after another, the cards are laid on the table and each time the combinatio...