In My Anthony, Will Keser addresses the difficult life of immigrants and American immigrants in the vast expanses of the prairie. In fact, this is the prairie anthem, on which the themes of growing up heroes, friendship, adaptation in an alien environment, the role of women in society (in particular women from the poor) are superimposed. The novel...

David Baldacci delivers a moving, family drama about learning to love again after terrible heartbreak and loss in this classic New York Times bestseller. It's almost Christmas, but there is no joy in the house of terminally ill Jack and his family. With only a short time left to live, he spends his last days preparing to say goodbye to his devoted...

The largest work of George Eliot (the pseudonym of the English writer Mary Ann Evans), a real masterpiece was the Middlemarch novel about a provincial town. A lot of terrible things are happening in Middlemarch - dubious enrichment, feuds around the inheritance, intrigues are woven, unsuccessful marriages are made, but the novel is written with...

The novel "Mansfield Park" belongs to the mature period of creativity of the famous English writers Jane Austen, the authors of such elegant and flashing novels as "Pride and Warning", "Reason of Reason", "Emma", "Northanger Abbey". In it, Austin is artfully depicted with brilliance and her amazing irony. In the estate "Mansfield Park", where they...

The relationship of the past and the present, the interpenetration of reality and science fiction, romantic pathos and detailed biography, satirical grotesque form the ideological and artistic originality of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel “The Scarlet Letter”. Nathaniel Hawthorne - classic American writer. He is part of a galaxy of writers who stood...

Now a major motion picture starring Glenn Close in her Golden Globe–winning role! One of bestselling author Meg Wolitzer’s most beloved books—an “acerbically funny” (Entertainment Weekly) and “intelligent…portrait of deception” (The New York Times). The Wife is the story of the long and stormy marriage between a world-famous novelist, Joe...

It was the time of the Alaskan gold rush in the 1890’s when sled dogs were very in demand. It is a story about a dog named Buck. He grew up with a comfortable life at Shepherd’s ranch. He was always fed and happy.But from the first day that Buck was stolen he learnt about hunger, thirst, and cruelty. Buck’s life changed. He was harnessed with...

A stunning new translation of the classic book—and basis for the beloved Oscar-winning film—brings the clarity and beauty of Kazantzakis’s language and story alive. First published in 1946, Zorba the Greek, is, on one hand, the story of a Greek working man named Zorba, a passionate lover of life, the unnamed narrator who he accompanies to Crete to...

“The Wind in the Willows” is a children's story that children and adults read with equal pleasure. Written and published at the beginning of the last century in England, it has spread around the world, translated into many languages. Readers fell in love with her heroes - the rational and kind Mole, the hospitable, reasonable Water Rat, the...

Gaston Leroux wrote one of the most inspired theater stories. Based on her motives, films, musicals and theatrical productions were created. Within the walls of the famous opera house, in the center of Paris, a mysterious ghost lives. A young, very beautiful simple chorus girl Kristina Dae becomes, under his leadership, a famous singer with a...