A world so far from ours, but at the same time so similar. The night is dark and full of horrors. And the usual streets of such a familiar city turn into blo...

At one time, Pippa Harrington hurt her best friend Gregory Sherwood, Lord Westdale. However, now, under the threat of an arranged marriage, the girl understa...

The emergence and rapid growth of the “second (“shadow”) economy” in the USSR in the period 60-80s led to the collapse of the socialist system in the Soviet ...

Harrison Gamble and True Maybank are very different - and what do a prosperous girl from a good family and a dashing street guy have in common? Only childhoo...

Winner of the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for her second novel The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai is on...

A blanket of snow-white covers the broad slopes of the hills known as the Sharp Ridge.Shurkh-shorkh. Surkh-shorkh. Someone is walking through the deep snow, ...

The nineteenth century for Japan was marked by a clash with more developed Western states. In a country isolated from the outside world for more than two cen...

As a child, I heard a story. She talked about a man who liked dragons. One day this man wanted to meet a dragon. And when his wish was fulfilled, he died of ...

A noble Englishwoman in love with a handsome Irish groom... In England this is a plot for piquant anecdotes, in Ireland - for sentimental ballads. But what s...

What if your wishes came true? What would you do then? This is a story about how you need to choose correctly what you want.

Do you believe that your wishes can come true? And it doesn’t matter how crazy this desire is. What if it comes true? You will be extremely happy about this....

This book contains works by various authors, united by one theme - they all describe the life and work of the legendary ruler of antiquity - King Ashoka. For...