Lisa is just beginning her journey as an artist. The choice is gnawing: to sell to the customer for pennies or give up on the dream. Routine shatters into fr...

Duke Villiers and Elinor Montague are as unsuitable for each other as any man and woman can be unsuitable. A frivolous rake, the life of the party, a favorit...

Amedeo Modigliani is a legend in the art world. This scion of a wealthy Italian family left his homeland and family to lead the life of a poor artist in Pari...

All works of Jerome Klapka Jerome in one e-book. Most of the collections included in the book were restored according to the author’s lifetime editions (mode...

Rose, a young wizard's apprentice, never even dared to think about taking something that belonged to someone else. Only this mirror is special. Instead of he...

Far, far away in a fairy-tale city, a magnificent Mask Ball takes place once a year. Hundreds of candles are reflected in the polished parquet floor, gentlem...

An early and very cold winter has arrived in London. So cold that for the first time in many years, the city authorities decided to organize a Frost Fair. It...

On June 20, seven winners of the Lyceum Prize were announced on the main stage of the Literary Festival on Red Square. The book includes texts of the winners...

Book “Pasolini. Dying for Ideas explores the work of Pier Paolo Pasolini from poetry to fiction, from theater to cinema, from journalism to literary criticis...

The story is inspired by Kir Bulychev's cycle about Alisa Selezneva. I was waiting for the excursion to Mars for the whole 10 b. Someone just wanted to skip ...

In everyday life, we often deal with chemistry, but we do not always realize it. To remedy the situation, chemistry teacher Giuseppe Alonci created his own Y...

Guy de Maupassant (full name Henri-René-Albert-Guy de Maupassant) is a French writer, essayist, author of short stories and novels, one of the great represen...