The publication includes some of the best works of the talented Ukrainian writer, a wonderful novelist, follower of I. Franko, and master of words Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi — the novella "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" and the short story "Intermezzo." Small in...

Summer of 1928... The town of Greentown... How interesting it is to live when you are only 12... You can sleep in your grandfather's tower, run around in tennis shoes, keep track of everyday events and new discoveries, see a...

In the story "Mykola Dzherya," I. Nechuy-Levytsky describes the hard life of serf peasants in Tsarist Russia, their chaotic struggle against oppression. In it, the author successfully combines colorful folk characters with vivid personalities and harmonious descriptions of nature.

"The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas is one of the favorite novels of many generations of readers. This is a story about Edmond Dantes, a young man unjustly convicted and imprisoned in the castle of If. Having managed...

"Arsène Lupin vs. Herlock Sholmes" (1908) is a story in two episodes that describes the confrontation between the "gentleman-burglar" Arsène Lupin and the great detective Herlock Sholmes (the first letters are not mixed up!). These two extraordinary characters clashed in...

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...

"The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas is one of the favorite novels of many generations of readers. This is a story about Edmond Dantes, a young man unjustly convicted and imprisoned in the castle of If. Having managed...

"The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas is one of the favorite novels of many generations of readers. This is a story about Edmond Dantes, a young man unjustly convicted and imprisoned in the castle of If. Having managed...

The novella by M. Kotsiubynskyi "At a Dear Price" depicts the heroic-romantic story of two lovers. Solomiya, who loved Ostap, was given in marriage to an old carter by the landowner, while the rebel Ostap was threatened with being sent...

The world of the works of the English writer Jane Austen (1775-1817) is the world of ordinary men and women, rather mundane, measured and at the same time not devoid of drama. A subtle psychologist and connoisseur of the human...

"The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas is one of the favorite novels of many generations of readers. This is a story about Edmond Dantes, a young man unjustly convicted and imprisoned in the castle of If. Having managed...

"The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas is one of the favorite novels of many generations of readers. This is a story about Edmond Dantes, a young man unjustly convicted and imprisoned in the castle of If. Having managed...

A prominent Cossack figure, romanticized in European culture: his image inspired Voltaire, Hugo, Liszt, Byron. Even during the hetman's lifetime, the Russian tsar unleashed an information war against Mazepa, and for four centuries now, Moscow has been cursing him, while...

"Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott is a cult novel for many generations of American girls. They were read to self-oblivion by him; they cried and laughed at him; it was taken apart for quotations and filmed several times. The...

"The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas is one of the favorite novels of many generations of readers. This is a story about Edmond Dantes, a young man unjustly convicted and imprisoned in the castle of If. Having managed...

"The Old Man and the Sea" is one of the most famous books by Ernest Hemingway, which has been impressing millions of readers for over half a century. For the first time since Ukraine's independence, this iconic work of American...

The Goncourt Brothers are among the founders of naturalism in French literature, and "Germinie Lacerteux" is perhaps their most ambiguous work.This is the story of the fall of the servant girl Germinie – described from her sad youth to her...

Emma Woodhouse is a charming young woman who loves to meddle in the lives of others. She does this not out of bad temper or malice; on the contrary, she enjoys arranging what she believes to be happy marriages. Considering...

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"...

Ten strangers ended up on the distant Soldier's Island: they all received a strange invitation to come here, to a luxurious house. However, until they understand who called them and for what... After a certain time, the horror begins: someone...

"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...