From the anthology “The Mardgaile Cookbook” (M.: AST, 2005).

The book includes stories about the Shaman, the sculptor Jerk, as well as several others - including a couple of fairly old ones, which perhaps not everyone ...

Reflections on a person’s search for himself. About contradictions in the world, about trying to find the true path.

Everything happens for the first time. This experience will be remembered for a lifetime. Getting to know the sky.

G. Broch is an outstanding Austrian prose writer of the 20th century, a wonderful artist, and a master of words. This volume includes the writer’s most signi...

Thomas Myne Reid (1818–1883) was an English writer who influenced the work of such famous authors as Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry Rider Haggard. Jack Lon...

Vladimir Berezin is a prose writer, literary critic, and journalist. Author of realistic (“Path and Procession”, “Witness”) and fantastic prose (“The Last Ma...

This is not only the story of Viktor Nikolaevich Polyakov (1915–2004), Minister of the Automotive Industry of the USSR, one of the country's prominent indust...