Corrupt judges, a thoroughly rotten police system, ferocious and unprincipled scoundrels who have chosen vice as their profession... Only a hero with the hig...

The Great Master, the author of a huge number of books, he equally famously wrote both one-page stories and multi-volume sagas. Combining the gift of a popul...

Gottfried Burger's ballad "Lenora", written in 1773, became an example of a romantic poetic work and gave rise to many imitations and translations. Vasily Zh...

Henry Haggard (1856–1925) is an English writer, lawyer and specialist in agronomy and soil science, a classic of world adventure literature. Along with Arthu...

The collection includes works by the most famous foreign science fiction writers - A. Azimov, R. Sheckley, R. Bradbury, K. Simak, etc. In the form of science...

The collection includes the best stories created by American prose writers on a sports theme in the 19th and the first two-thirds of the 20th century. The an...

This manual contains tasks that attracted the author with their aesthetics. Why might you like this or that task? What is the source of beauty and elegance i...

In this volume, the main roles are played by “villains” - brilliant robbers, virtuoso swindlers, smart and cunning swindlers, skilled card sharpers who have ...