In the book “Nancy Drew and the Ghost of Blackwood Hall,” the legendary detective takes on a new case. The widow Mrs. Putney turns to Nancy for help. She is ...

The bell of the ancient church, which for centuries had been calling parishioners to the morning service, fell silent... And a few hours later, the corpse of...

Charles II. The king, well known to us from the novel “Ten Years Later” by Alexandre Dumas... But what was he like, not in books, but in reality? Patron of t...

Why are Eric Ambler's novels so popular? Why are they timeless and even now, more than half a century after they were written, are read with unflagging inter...

An exquisite historical novel by Thornton Wilder. The story of the feat of the soul of a woman who dared to break the established order and paid dearly for h...

The Nancy Drew Diaries series has been published from 2013 to the present. It is a re-release of Nancy Drew Girl Detective, described as “classic Nancy Drew ...

“I don’t know how to play the cithara or the lyre,” said the strategist Themistocles, “but I know how to make a small city great.” He didn’t lie: the first m...

The fate of Mukhtar Auezov, the author of the world-famous trilogy about Abai, is the tragedy of a triumphant. An outstanding representative of the first gen...

She should have died from the executioner's ax or the killer's poison - but she didn't die... She could have been happy. She could become a wife and mother. ...

The fifth volume of “US Literary History” traces the features of the development of realism in American literature of the early 20th century (1901–1920) and ...

Why did Richard Arnold, one of the twelve jurors, save Viola Ross, a beauty, not unreasonably accused of murdering her elderly husband, from the gallows? Why...