Pol'sha, Varshava, 1930-e gody. Vozduh pronizan trevozhnymi predchuvstviyami mirovoy katastrofy. Aaron Greydinger - molodoy pisatel', syn ravvina, vedushchiy bogemnyy obraz zhizni. Zaputavshis' v lyubovnyh svyazyah i tvorcheskih neudachah, on pytaetsya napisat' misticheskuyu p'esu i vmeste s ostal'nymi varshavskimi evreyami zhdet neminuemogo konca sveta. Odnim vesennim dnem, gulyaya po nishchim evreyskim kvartalam svoego detstva, on reshaet zaglyanut'...

In December 1941, a German tank column is moving towards Moscow. During a mission to stop the enemy advance, Soviet pilot Nikolai Komlev's Il-2 is shot down in enemy territory. To survive, Komlev must face hunger, extreme cold, evading wild wolves, and avoiding Nazi soldiers. When he finally makes it back to safety, he faces the strongest challenge of them all.

«Kogda ya sazhus pisat knigu, - priznavalsya Oruell, - ya ne govoryu sebe: "Hochu sozdat proizvedenie iskusstva". YA pishu ee - potomu, chto est kakaya-to lozh, kotoruyu ya dolzhen razoblachit, kakoy-to fakt, k kotoromu nado privlech vnimanie…» Imenno tak byli napisany chetyre avtobiograficheskie povesti Oruella, sostavivshie etu knigu. «Slavno, slavno my rezvilis» - o detstve i uchebe v shkole Sv. Kipriana; Oruell govoril, chto on «perenes...

Istoriya malenkogo sonnogo gorodka na yuge Ameriki, povedannaya malenkoy devochkoy. Istoriya ee brata Dzhima, druga Dilla i ee ottsa – chestnogo, printsipialnogo advokata Attikusa Fincha, odnogo iz poslednih i luchshih predstaviteley staroy «yuzhnoy aristokratii». Istoriya sudebnogo protsessa po delu chernokozhego parnya, obvinennogo v nasilii nad beloy devushkoy. No prezhde vsego – istoriya perelomnoy epohi, kogda ksenofobiya, rasizm, neterpimost...

Escaping from an alternate reality, the research starship Twain is trying to prevent the death of an inhabited planet. But the stakes are much higher - all inhabited worlds are in danger. And the first of them is the world of the mysterious civilization Rax ...

Odnazhdy shestnadcatiletnyaya Marta reshaet sdelat' shag v neizvestnost' i navstrechu svobode. Vyskol'znuv iz okna svoej komnaty v shkole-internate, ona otpravlyaetsya v, kazalos' by, uvlekatel'noe puteshestvie. Marta verit, chto znaet dorogu i smozhet spravit'sya so vsem sama. No les, v kotorom ona okazyvaetsya, gorazdo temnee, bol'she i strashnee lyubyh ee ozhidanij. Ej predstoyat dve nedeli odinochestva, otchayaniya, nadezhdy i bor'by za zhizn',...

The book presents a very original translation of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland into Russian by poet and translator Oleg Haslavsky.

Eto neobychnaya kniga – kniga-protivostoyanie: Vladimir Pozner stavit pered svoimi gostyami i voprosy vechnye, i voprosy siyuminutnye: Vozmozhna li demokratiya v Rossii? Svoboden li hudozhnik, kotoromu platit den'gi gosudarstvo? Mozhno li lyubit' vlast' i ostavat'sya pri etom nezavisimym politikom? Est' li otlichie mezhdu religiey i cerkov'yu?Na eti i drugie voprosy otvechayut protoierey Dmitriy Smirnov, Alen Delon, Aleksandr Prohanov, Renata Litvinova,...

V detstve Gumbert Gumbert perezhil vzaimnuyu, no neveroyatno boleznennuyu vlyublennost v devochku Anabel Li. Roditelyam v kontse kontsov prishlos ih razluchit, i Anabel v skorom vremeni umerla. Eto sobytie, po mneniyu samogo Gumberta, stalo prichinoy, po kotoroy on ispytyvaet strast k nesovershennoletnim devochkam, kotoryh nazyvaet "nimfetkami". 1947 god. Tridtsatisemiletniy prepodavatel frantsuzskoy literatury Gumbert Gumbert snimaet dom na severo-vostoke...