Herman Melville’s classic masterpiece tells the story of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab seeks one specific whale, Moby Dick, a white sperm whale of...
Fifteen-year-old Alex and his three friends start an evening’s mayhem by hitting an old man, tearing up his books and stripping him of money and clothes.Or rather Alex and his three droogs tolchock an old veck, razrez his books, pull off...
Just after the iron curtain fell on Eastern Europe John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer, Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the "New York Herald Tribune". This rare opportunity took the famous travelers not only to...
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Dark Carnival (Тёмный карнавал)
The October Country (Октябрьская страна)
Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales (Сборник ста лучших...
A. J. Cronin’s latest novel is a devastating one—more realistic than any he has ever written. In The Judas Tree, the author of The Stars Look Down, The Citadel, The Keys of the Kingdom and The Green Years tells an engrossing story of a man beset...
Claudius has survived the murderous intrigues of his predecessors to become, reluctantly, Emperor of Rome. Here he recounts his surprisingly successful reign: how he cultivates the loyalty of the army and the common people to repair the damage...