The youngest of the four sons of Mariano and Smeralda Filipepi, Alessandro, was born in Florence on Via Nuova (now Via del Porcellana) near the Arno River. L...

“Bottle Mail for Dad” is the most famous story by the German writer Hubert Schierneck. Funny and touching, she has already won the hearts of children in diff...

What do students of an elite school do after school? What secrets are hidden behind the closed doors of beautiful houses? The murder of a schoolgirl will for...

“A person with bottom syndrome” is Vitukhnovskaya’s most straightforward statement. Her judgments and aphorisms will probably infuriate many. But when she ve...

To find yourself in the main square of the eternal city not only on the eve of the coming year, but also to attend the historical event of the introduction o...

When the sun fades, a new one will not be born soon. A great civilization perished, only a handful of people survived, and the Bottomless Darkness settled in...

This selection of stories, set in mythical times and in 1920s and 1930s London and Paris, reflects Antal Szerb’s love of life and irrepressible irony that...

It’s a shame to herd a goat at that age. So Danila goes with her to the other end of the lake, where thick grass grows along the shore. Far away, of course. ...

The book is a collection of poems of various kinds. In it the author talks about nature. about life about the changes that the weather has in store for us an...

Can someone’s life depend on one random decision? Lost in the dark corners of St. Petersburg, Sasha finds herself in the thick of things. An unexpected accid...

A collection of ten dark stories from Horror Writers Association member Aaron Polson. Witness hotels with shifting rooms…carnivorous beetles bent on devou...

The story “...And Five Bottles of Vodka” - the first Russian work of this genre to appear in the West - was first published in 1975, translated into French a...