A retelling of a French chivalric romance dating from around 1220, which tells the story of Charlemagne's knight named Yvon, who defeated the Elven King hims...

The family drama of the book's characters unfolds against the backdrop of a tense political confrontation between the USSR and Western European powers, in wh...

It seemed that at the beginning of the 21st century Russia could no longer dream of big space. It seemed that she would forever have to say goodbye to the am...

Richard Matheson devoted fifty years to literature, was awarded the most prestigious awards and acquired a reputation as a “destroyer of genres.” His works c...

The novel “Arina” is about great love, and even on Russian soil. The young provincial Arina, of course, of unearthly beauty, and in addition a student of the...

Nadya (1929) is a novel about the unknown Russian female soul. A French lieutenant came to Russia to improve his Russian language and fell in love with the f...

The rapid degeneration of a humane society of a bright future into a totalitarian dictatorship due to the fact that, initially guided by the best intentions ...

What for someone is sounds, for another may turn out to be dull, endless blows to a living consciousness, an unbearable incessant roar, and not some way of c...

“Paris in the 20th Century” is a “new” work by Jules Verne, the manuscript of which was discovered only in 1994. The novel, a dystopian genre, depicts and br...

Once upon a time, an incomprehensible ball appeared in the solar system. It was never possible to find out what it was - a celestial body, an alien ship or a...

“Long live the Transatlantic Tunnel! Hurray!” In this world, America was not discovered by Columbus, but the Spaniards in the 13th century surrendered to the...