Andrew Lang is a British writer, translator, historian and ethnographer. "Coloured Fairy Books" is the famous series of fairy-tale collections compiled by Andrew Lang. It includes 25 books and The Arabian Nights Entertainments, one of which is a unique collection of magical Arabian stories....

The book includes the legendary novel by HG Wells "War of the Worlds", repeatedly filmed and inspiring entire generations of science fiction writers to create exciting works about the struggle of civilizations and star wars....

10 years pass before John Carter is again on Mars. He is waiting for meetings with old friends, captivity, battles and a meeting with his beloved Daya Toris ......

John Milton (1608-1676) - one of the greatest poets of England. Milton's poetry has always been distinguished by its elevation, its greatest beauty, appreciated by poets such as Pushkin, Byron, Goethe, can not be left indifferent and modern reader, despite the fact that we share the time and the difference in cultural and different artistic...

There was no doubt that Willy was a hero. The biggest difficulty was different: it was almost impossible to decide which side he was on ......

A young American, Winterbourne, who has lived in Europe for many years and has managed to break the habit of American customs, arrives in the small Swiss town of Vevey to see his aunt. At the hotel, he accidentally meets a wealthy American Miller family - a nine-year-old boy, his older sister and their mother. They travel around Europe accompanied...

The Grimm brothers are one of the most famous storytellers on the planet. Everyone knows the tales and protagonists of these wonderful authors of the Bremen Town Musicians, King Thrushbeard, Snow White and Rose Red, The Brave Tailor, and many others. Their stories are still being translated into many different languages and reprinted each year in...

In his works, Prosper Merimet, a novelist, short-story writer, playwright and historian who became a classic of 19th-century French literature, addresses both historical events and the contemporary reality of France, shows interest in exoticism and colorful, distinctive characters. Proof of this is the novel "Carmen", which has become the basis of...

Three people on board a space cargo ship. Their cargo is the supercomputer ordered by the Martian colony. And then the accident ... And now their ship at great speed flies away from the solar system. And if the human brain is not able to solve the problem of returning home, what way out of the situation do they have left? .....

“The heart of the wise is in the house of weeping, and the heart of the foolish is in the house of fun,” warned the biblical Ecclesiastes. So for the young beauty Lily Bart, New York at the turn of the century symbolizes not only the Golden Age, but the golden cage. Only a profitable marriage will help her regain the high position lost by the Bart...