“The Cherry Orchard” by Anton Chekhov is a timeless classic that continues to captivate audiences from around the world. An iconic play set in pre-revolutionary Russia, it tells the story of a family struggling with the impending loss of their beloved home and orchard. It is a bittersweet tale of love, loss, and longing, full of humor and poignancy. The play is often read as a dramatization of the decline of the aristocracy and other socio-economic...

Я – женщина, жена, мама, дочь, сестра, друг – какие еще роли принято исполнять. И мне до чертиков надоело стремиться стать идеальной во всем. Через историю одной семьи, свою историю, рассказываю о вещах, к пониманию которых шла годы. Перед вами результат...

В сарае на ферме амишей обнаруживают мертвого младенца, и это до основания потрясает округ Ланкастер. Однако полицейское расследование приводит к более шокирующему открытию: косвенные улики свидетельствуют, что восемнадцатилетняя Кэти Фишер, незамужняя...

MAXIM - самый читаемый мужской журнал в России. В отличие от большинства журналов, пропагандирующих тот или иной стиль жизни, MAXIM пропагандирует скорее стиль мысли – специфический интеллигентно-философски-озорной взгляд на окружающий нас мир. Формально

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The book presents a very original translation of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland into Russian by poet and translator Oleg Haslavsky.

Anniversary edition of the financial bestseller of all time! Rich Dad, Poor Dad was published 20 years ago for the first time and at once achieved wide readership. By the anniversary of the financial bestseller, Robert Kiyosaki has prepared the new edition with updates for the present-day world and today's market conditions including nine additional sections. 20 years having passed since the first publication is a long period. Unfortunately,

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It is restless in the capital Bureau of storage the claws and tails. Instead of storing these very claws and tails for the needs of the national economy, the bureau is divided into two warring sides and has the cat-and-dog fight with itself. The part of it which is leaded by the fiery chief and tribune comrade Fanatiuk wins. The loser tribune and chief comrade Sataniuk is removed. All the Sataniuk`s supporters as it seems, are going to have the inevitable...

Written and illustrated for 5- to 7-year-olds, this book celebrates grandmas, superheroes without whom none of us would exist, and the cultural traditions they bear that unify and nourish families across space and time. The millennia-old Korean New Year's tradition exemplifies the universal importance of multi-generational family and of immigrant origins.

"Bright Personality" is a satirical novella by Ilf and Petrov. The story revolves around a municipal employee named Egor Karlovich Filurin, who becomes invisible after using a special soap at a local bathhouse in the town of Pishcheslav. This development prompts significant changes in the town, as the residents abandon vices like drinking, nepotism, and profanity. Filurin is both revered and reviled for his invisible presence, leading to legal troubles....

"The Angel and the Author and Others" is a cycle of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome, an outstanding British writer and humourist (1859 — 1927). The collection consists of 19 essays, in which the author is more engaged by moral and ethic issues, the inner world of characters, behavior psychology. Here there is less sparkling humour, peculiar to the writer's early works.