This is a love story between a serf girl and a rich count. To pay off a gambling debt, a young serf girl is given to the landowner Kukushkin. He takes Varya ...

After graduating, Jade did not expect gifts from fate, but hoped for the best. In vain! Her home university sends her to mandatory service in Ragos - a dark ...

A young beauty is supposed to become the wife of an aristocrat, who is considered a madman, but her fear and despair turn into ardent passion...

Covering thinkers from Aristotle to Saussure and Chomsky, "Introducing Linguistics" reveals the rules and beauty that underlie language, our most human sk...

In her new novels “The Crime of Count Neuville” and “Rike with the Tuft,” the queen of the European bestseller Amelie Nothomb masterfully balances between a ...

The sophisticated and daring libertine Count Chillingsworth, nicknamed Frost, is notorious. He changes women like gloves, and his piquant adventures are lege...

The Reconquista is underway on the Iberian Peninsula. Christians are displacing Muslims. New possessions and title oblige our hero to participate in this war...

Some considered him a swindler and a liar who fooled simpletons throughout Europe. Others believed that he was an adept of alchemy and a wise magician initia...

Count E. F. Komarovsky in his “Notes” essentially tells not only about his life and the life of his family. His origin and position at court made it possible...

The collection includes stories and one-act plays written or revised during the pandemic and partly thanks to it, but mostly in spite of it. Thanks, because ...

"Why her?" - Dracula asked himself when he met Mina Harker...© Pinocchio

First half of the 15th century. War between England and France. France is going through difficult, dark times due to the division among the nobility. Two war...