The story is from the book “The Trappers,” which consists of three stories written by different authors - the German Karl Hagenbeck (“Of Beasts and Men”), th...

Guy de Maupassant (full name Henri-René-Albert-Guy de Maupassant) is a French writer, essayist, author of short stories and novels, one of the great represen...

Sylveta and Persine are in love with each other, but the long-standing enmity of their fathers prevents them from being together. Every day they dream of a h...

“The scene represents the deck of a ship, apparently damaged by a long and painful voyage. Traces of the storm: torn sails, broken yards, frayed ropes, the m...

The poetic Spanish drama of the “Golden Age,” along with the prose of Cervantes and the painting of Velazquez, marked one of the peaks of Spanish national cu...

One day, young Dona Maria finds her father upset and crying. It turns out that the young Don Diego came to woo him and, becoming angry at the refusal, raised...

A tragedy about honor. The king liked the young Estrella, who was called by the people the “Star of Seville” for her extraordinary beauty. He wants to take p...

This is a book from the “Classics at School” series, which contains all the works studied in elementary school, middle and high school. Don’t waste time sear...

For twelve years now, the sorcerer Prospero has been living on a mysterious island inhabited by magical creatures, deprived of his crown and homeland by his ...

The son of the famous French playwright and poet Edmond Rostand, Maurice Rostand (1891–1968), penned the novel “Casanova’s Love,” written in a bright neo-rom...

The collection includes works about girls and for girls. The stories “Chukhlashka” by Nikolai Wagner and “The Sphinx” by Lydia Charskaya; stories by L. Nelid...

As punishment for his insolence, the spirit of Dzelu is turned into a Blue Monster and is forced to attack Nanjing and its inhabitants. Only truly faithful l...