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...

The famous English writer Rudyard Kipling is a Nobel Prize laureate in literature, who received it “for his powers of observation, vivid imagination, maturit...

“Lewis Carroll wrote all his life. As a child, when his name was Charles Dodgson, he, as the eldest in a large family, was accustomed to entertaining his sis...

“The main property of a jester can probably be described as follows: wind in the head. The wind that completely blows away sanity, tears things out of place ...

The poem “Venus and Adonis” brought fame to Shakespeare among the educated public; they say that London beauties kept the book under their pillows, and Oxfor...

The poem “Venus and Adonis” brought fame to Shakespeare among the educated public; they say that London beauties kept the book under their pillows, and Oxfor...

An old man and a young man stop at a destroyed house. It turns out that they are father and son, and the house once belonged to the old man’s mother, who cam...

The book by the famous translator and researcher of English poetry is a memoir of his travels around England, to the places of life and work of his favorite ...

The famous English writer Rudyard Kipling is a Nobel Prize laureate in literature, who received it “for his powers of observation, vivid imagination, maturit...

Wallace Stevens is one of the greatest American poets of the 20th century. After graduating from law school in New York, he worked for most of his life in an...

“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...

English folk songs translated by Grigory Kruzhkov with colored engravings based on the drawings of Randolph Caldecott - a classic of children's book illustra...