The story of Lafcadio, a charming young lion who once, when hunters surrounded a flock of lions, did not run away, but began to shoot back, is one of Silvers...

“...Once upon a time, the ghosts of the northern counties of England gathered for an extraordinary council. There was only one issue on the agenda: the misbe...

It can be said without exaggeration that Robert Sheckley and Isaac Asimov, Harry Harrison and Paul Anderson, Robert Howard and Clifford Simak and ten other g...

A series of lectures on the famous novel by Cervantes “Don Quixote”, read by the greatest Russian-American writer of the twentieth century, Vladimir Nabokov,...

Clifford Simak (1904–1988) is one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century and the founders of modern science fiction. His name is well known to ...

Several translators (Natalia Belenkaya-Grinberg, Marina Boroditskaya, Kirill Ankudinov, Grigory Kruzhkov, Victor Kulle, Leonid Sitnik and Alexander Shapiro) ...

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...

William Butler Yeats - the great poet, prose writer and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate, father of English modernism and his opponent - called his work “tra...

"Puck of the Magic Hills" and "The Fairies' Gifts", books by the famous Rudyard Kipling, included in the collection, gained popularity during the writer's li...

Ginger is an amazing plant, the healing properties of which have been known since ancient times. It has expectorant, antibacterial, antiparasitic properties,...

“There was a hole in the ground, and in the hole lived a hobbit.” These words were written by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien on the back of a school exam paper he...