Серия "Nabokov Prize Library"

«Я – испорченная цивилизацией девушка, и здесь, в пустыне, мне скучно. Как послушный медицинский работник, усердно исполняю свой долг, потому что дала клятву Гиппократа и подписку секретному ведомству, которое обеспечило меня льготами на учебу в престижном учебном заведении». Постепенно девушка втягивается в дурные компании, потому что любит развлечения, дорогие вещи и украшения. И скатывается в пучину, что заканчивается для нее трагически. Она навсегда остается в розовых песках безбрежной...

«…In front of me, there was the heart of the house – the owner’s desk. The light of the green glass shade of the table lamp nicely set at rest. But it still took me long to summon up courage before I decided to open the biggest drawer with the cut-in lock, from which the key along with the bunch of other keys protruded. The mystery was about to be revealed. The fear of unveiling the secret was even worse than the fear of the unknown…»

The book contains the poetry defined by such poetic genres as the love verses, landscape, philosophical, and civic poetry. It reflects the views of the poet upon modern processes that take place in our society, the tendencies in their changes, it reflects a complex pattern of relationships of the people. Much attention is paid to the formation of the system of values among people and its compliance with the values system of society and the country. The poems show the beauty and power of an...

Stories filled with plaintive love for all living things. Kindness is intertwined with a unique wealth of information, and reading is not only interesting, but exciting and exemplary. Each character existed in real life. The reader gets a unique chance to get in touch with the facts, which only a few know about, and for the younger generation, such reading is a real school of nobility, an example of dedication and generosity. The one, genuine Georgy Vitsin, a school of sleuth dogs in...

«Knives» is a detective story. Three attempts were made to kill Clara Yurievna, a tax officer, daughter of a wealthy businessman, bride of a famous professor. The method of murder was all the same, pretty strange for our times. The author reveals a wide range of characters, day-to-day rules and life situations.

«Basket of Selected Fruits» To pick the juiciest apple, you need to go to the apple orchard. In order to taste the sweetest grapes, you need to go to the vineyard. If you want to pick the most fragrant orange, you need to go to the plantation with citrus plants, right? But everything is easier when they bring you a basket of selected fruits. This book in a sense resembles the very basket of the most valuable thoughts. There are a lot of motivational books that teach you how to succeed, as...

This movie tells about the contribution of the indigenous Yamal people to the victory in the Great Patriotic War, about the hardships they have undergone with the country. The story is set in the war years in the Shuryshkarsky district, the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, and is based on real events. Between 1930 and 1940 the Khartaganov family raised 7 orphans of different age and nationality.

This book is about an declaration of love to a wonderful woman in a classic sonnet style, in tradition, which goes all the way up to Francesco Petrarke, William Shakespeare, Ronsar, Bodler, Verlen and other famous masters of this genre. And live a day… This book is about many areas of life of humans, the full range of feelings experienced by each of us, but its leitmotif is love in all its faces.

What are the things experienced by the human soul on the sharpest edge of death or life? Isn't this nothing but revealing of the personality's true essence? The story «Shahid» is an attempt to look «beyond»… Breathing is so rapid that it is impossible to breathe in… The heart breaks into pieces of horror. The fate of an ordinary boy viewed through the crushed crooked mirrors of war in the conflict of East and West. The search, the slow clarification of the one's his true path, the lessons...

Alem Kengerli is one of the well-known writers representing the Nakhichevan Region of Azerbaijan. He is famous for his short, instructive stories. Recently, his book titled “18 Accidents on the Train” was published in Baku and then also in Moscow. The readers, even the critics, reacted positively and really appreciated his stories, which are accounts of simple truths and ordinary people. В формате PDF A4 сохранен издательский макет книги.

The novel is based on the real events that took place in Buryatia in 1986. In the taiga, poachers killed the bear-cub in the thrill of the race. The thunderous echo was still heard, and she-bear rushed out from the nearby bushes. And men fired again. But ignoring the wounds, she swept away the murderers of her bear-cub… Two blows… Two deaths… The loss of the bear-cub, physical wounds, pain, and rage made she-bear seek vengeance. As the result, thirteen men were dead… The story took place...