Can a hotel rebuilt from a former radio station be called a “pearl”? Of course not! This place can best be called: "Snowball". Its inhabitants never leave th...

One evening Sir Harry went... no, it was Sir Andrew. Or maybe Sir Robert? In a word, three bosom friends (not to mention Thomas the Cat and his bosom friend ...

Funny stories in pictures about serious writers. Humorous versions: how the works of the classics were created. Where did the authors get their inspiration f...

Imagine a small European town. Some even consider it tiny. But still, whatever it is, the European capital. Life in the town is in full swing. The city owes ...

One ballerina flashed another ballerina's eye. She accidentally. You don’t believe it, but it’s in vain. And one writer rushed out of hunger to write pornogr...

The neo-Victorian novel is one of the most popular genres of modern British literature, a kind of artistic nostalgia for the 19th century, when the British E...

Sarah Danius (1962-2019) is an iconic figure in the culture of modern Sweden: professor of aesthetics and literary criticism, member of the Swedish Academy a...

After young Silver's mother is literally blown off the face of the earth, the girl ends up with the blind and wise lighthouse keeper Pugh, who teaches her th...

Mrs. Tinkham is a lady, as they say, of “indeterminate old age.” On her head she wears a black felt beret with a bird, and only in it does she allow herself ...

You and I, dear reader, are educated people and therefore we know that ghosts do not exist. You can’t just go ahead and admit it: someone is stealing our but...