The English writer George Orwell (1903—1950) gained worldwide fame for his works written in the last years of his life. The anti-utopia novel 1984 tells the story of Winston Smith and his degradatio...

The English writer George Orwell (1903—1950) gained worldwide fame for his works written in the last years of his life. The political allegory «Animal Farm» depicts the rebirth of revolutionary pr...

«Martin Eden» is a novel by the American writer Jack London (1876—1916). It is about a young sailor who falls in love with a girl from a wealthy family. The hero of the work is trying to become a ...

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is а legendary «black novel» by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894). Dr. Jekyll makes а sensational discovery, but he is forced to keep it а secret be...

«The Woman in White» is a novel by the outstanding English writer Wilkie Collins (1824—1889), a master of intrigue, who successfully combines the mysterious, detective and romantic in his works. T...

The stories of the American writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890–1937) are attempts at science fiction and mysticism. The work of the same name, as well as the short stories The Shadow out of Tim...

At the Mountains of Madness is a novel by the American writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890–1937) in the genre of horror and fantasy. What the research expedition is going to discover in Antarcti...

The American writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) created his masterpieces not only in the romantic style, but he was also the founder of the detective genre, the «master of horror». «Morella» is ...

English children’s writer and artist Beatrix Potter (1866—1943) loved to write about animals—both funny and serious-minded, chicken-hearted and daring.The book The Tale of Little Pig, illustrate...

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders is a novel by Daniel Defoe (1660—1731). In her attempts to make her way up to the top, the protagonist of the work wouldn’t shy at adventur...

Yevhen Shyshatskyi is an editor and journalist. He was born and raised in Mariupol. Now he lives and works in Kyiv since 2014.On February 24, 2022, Yevhen’s world turned upside down, as it did in ca...

It takes only two hours to drive from Chernihiv to Kyiv, and an hour  — to the border with the Russian Federation, so the defense of the city in the full-scale war of 2022 was of strategic importan...

There shouldn’t be this book at all. Because there shouldn’t have been this war at all. But on February 24, Ukraine woke up at dawn from the sounds of explosions, and a convoy of Russian militaryv...

The history of Ukraine resembles a half-uncharted map. This is not a mere coincidence, but the result of the deliberate public policy. Hundreds of various people serving their mother countries have be...

The knowledge of our national history helps us to realize what we are like and why we have become like that. This awareness provides invaluable lessons, and requires not to repeat mistakes which we ma...

«Little Women» is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888). First part of the story follows the lives of the four March sisters — Margaret, Jo, Beth, and Amy — who were born in...

Little Men novel, like most of the works by the American writer Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888), is somewhat autobiographical. In the private school for boys, which was opened by the spouses Jo and Fr...

The Adventures of Oliver Twist is a famous novel by Charles Dickens (1812—1870). Despite all the trials and tribulations, the young orphan hero does not lose his human dignity and faith in moral val...

The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice is one of the highest pinnacles of the work of William Shakespeare (1564-1616). The action takes place during the Ottoman-Venetian war for control over the i...

«Sense and Sensibility» is a novel by the English writer Jane Austen (1775–1817) about two sisters of opposite temperaments. In the very name lies the philosophical depth of the work, the writer h...