The 1930s, the times of Stalinist repressions. A young man sentenced to 25 years for love of his homeland escapes from the stage echelon of the NKVD, which transports exhausted and desperate people to a slow death in the Gulag...

"The Yolk" is the first work of Rebecca Kwan, in which she departs from the epic, fantasy and experiments with the satirical novel genre. This is a story about temptations, passions and conflicts in the world of writers and publishers....

Christine Genna aptly describes human weakness and resilience, skillfully portrays the indomitable spirit of American pioneers and the atmosphere of already half-disappeared Alaska — an incomparably beautiful and relentlessly dangerous land. "Velika Glushina" is a frank and beautiful story about...

All her life she was told that she was weak and ugly. All her life she was looked after, but not loved. All her life, she considered herself superfluous and behaved quietly, like a mouse, so as not to burden...

"Lady Chatterley's Lover" is a blend of fiction and philosophy, centered on female sensuality. A novel in which eroticism and sexuality exist on a par with beautifully written psychological nuances and analysis of the time. In their illustrations for the...

"The Great Circle" is a monumental and emotional novel that tells the story of a brave female pilot who decided to fulfill her biggest dream at any cost. 1914, America. After being rescued from a crashed ocean liner, Marian and...

In the history of world literature, there are happy cases when a book created by a novice writer overcomes time and space limitations, turning into a masterpiece for all times and peoples. Mykola Gogol's "Evenings on a farm near Dykanka"...

A strange wooden cube was a grandfather's legacy to the student Maksym Pidhirskyi. The legacy that Maxim handed over to his teacher of Old Slavonic mythology, Dalibor Kravts. Passed and... disappeared forever. Dalibor found an encrypted message in Glagolitic script inside...

It is a shame for the whole village to give birth to a child without a husband. And if the child is someone else's? Olena hid the baby out of pity and did not tell anyone about it, not even...

The collection includes works of legendary, fantastical and anecdotal content written in the 1850s by the Ukrainian writer, ethnographer and playwright Oleksa Storozhenko (1806–1874), which were later published under the title "Ukrainian Stories" (1863) in St. Petersburg.

"District "D" is a collection of stories united by a common time and space, from which a portrait of the author gradually emerges against the background of "other shores", where his childhood, youth and youth passed. A self-critical portrait in...

What is left for a mother when life takes away the most precious thing from her - her own child, and she finds herself in the abyss of despair and powerlessness? Where does she get the strength not to go...

The novel Sweet Darusia by the prominent Ukrainian writer Maria Mathios is, without exaggeration, one of the most significant events in Ukrainian literature since Independence. The French critic (in France, "Sweet Darusia" was published by the most prestigious publishing house...

• Screened in 2017 - starring Dennis Quaid, Peggy Lipton, John Ortiz• New York Times BestsellerFor a person, a dog is a faithful friend for ten, fifteen years. However, the owner for a dog is his whole life...This dog was born for...

• Reissue in an updated design•CULTREAD series of fiction•In 1998, a screen adaptation was released with Robin Williams in the lead roleA penetrating story about love that overcame hell and rose above heavenWhat happens to us after death? Chris didn't know...

A young Californian, Richard Papen, enters a private college in New England. Ashamed of his origin, he watches with delight the five chosen ones - students studying in the ancient Greek language course with the charismatic professor Julian. Twins Charles...

A book that all book lovers were waiting for an additional editionReprint from LyaseThe novel was screened in 2019 - starring Ansel Elgort, Oakes Figley, Nicole KidmanThe novel "Shchygol" brought the writer- 2014 Pulitzer Prize;- the Andrew Carnegie Medal for...

A witty and so warm story about summer vacations that brings back childhood and youth. From the first childhood adventures in the village with hay and corn to growing up and complex internal changes. Someone was dragged into the routine...

"Moby Dick" is the most famous novel of the classic of American literature Herman Melville (1819-1891). This strange work combined exciting adventures, deep philosophical reflections and great human drama. The author tells about voyages on a whaling ship - the...

The novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude" is considered the masterpiece of Gabriel García Márquez. It was for this work that the writer was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The author describes the life history of the Buendia family...

Volodymyr Lys is a Ukrainian novelist, dramatist, journalist, who is called a people's writer. Winner of the Word Coronation and Grand Coronation, other literary competitions. The author of numerous novels, short stories, radio plays and plays for the theater, short...

The Russian invasion of our territory from February 2022, which became full-scale and especially aggressive during the entire period of the war since 2014, actualized a number of topics in art and, in particular, in literature. Writers, poets, thinkers address...

France is engulfed in the fire of the Second World War. Large cities and small towns are occupied by the Nazis, enemy planes are in the sky, and despair, death and suffering are all around. Vianne Mauriac is a village...