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A popular science book for young people about the history of writing, books, and printing — from prehistoric drawings to the modern printing press. A lively, accessible style by a Soviet author with illustrations by N. Lapshin.
Since the play Three Sisters was written in the second half of the 19th century, it rightly carries with it certain motifs and an atmosphere that runs through most literary works of that period.
A satirical search for hidden treasure in post-revolutionary Russia. Former nobleman Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov and con artist Ostap Bender chase after valuables, exposing the greed and absurdities of Soviet society.
The novel follows Boris Kostomarov, an engineer in Soviet Russia, who, through conflicts with bureaucracy, moral questioning, and the fates of people in remote forests, reveals the complexity of Soviet society and the price of personal conscience.
Between 1892, when "The Fragment", the first novella in this book, was published, and "The Peasant" (1897) and "On the Carts" (1897), A. P. Chekhov made a series of other artistically successful observations of the society in which he lived.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, one of the greatest writers and visionaries in history, is presented in this edition with a selection from his correspondence (Letters from Exile), an account of his first trip to Europe (Winter Notes on Summer Impressions), and the fam