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"Letter from Birmingham Jail" door Martin Luther King Jr.
While the letter Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote while imprisoned in Birmingham had a specific purpose in the beginning, it ultimately touches on universal issues of freedom and inequality.
"St. Petersburg notes": fresh events of St. Petersburg today
One way to talk about incidents is with a comic strip. Art shows through the eyes of an eyewitness everything that happened. They decided to apply this style in Switzerland, showing the tragedy of the Leningrad blockade.
"I am writing everything except denunciations." On the anniversary of Eugene Schwartz
KIROV. In Kirov, Eugene Schwartz was remembered.
"Summer Plans" by Asya Lavrinovich, summary
This book is a story about growing up, family difficulties, first strong feelings, and the search for one’s own path for a seventeen-year-old girl, published in 2024The work explores the paradoxical feeling of loneliness of the main characters in the presence of a complete family, where the adults are completely absorbed in science and their own relationships, leaving the children to fend for themselves.
"The Crying Monster" by Vlad Rayber, summary
This book is a chilling collection of mystical stories, published in 2024. The plot revolves around terrifying creatures from parallel dimensions. They feed on human fears, destroying the established order of things.
"Plush Head" by Vlad Raiber, summary
This book is an anthology of frightening urban legends, written in the form of personal diaries and notesIt was created in 2023. The most important detail about this book is that the disparate stories are united by a common plot about a parallel world and its eerie inhabitants, which paranormal researcher Artur Glagolev attempts to study.
"Over the Pieces of Your Heart" by Anna Jane, summary
This book is an emotionally charged story about overcoming loss, published in 2022. It is a profound exploration of teenage trauma through the lens of first love and criminal intrigue.
“Grown” by Tiffany D. Jackson
“Grown” is the fourth novel by American author Tiffany DJackson. A ripped-from-the-headlines story about sexual exploitation, the dark crimes of celebrity elites, and the power of silence and speaking up, “Grown” is set in the modern day and uses a nonlinear plot to explore the uncomfortable conversation at the heart of the #MeToo movement against sexual abuse and harassment.
"Late Love" by Alexander Ostrovsky, summary
This book is a poignant drama about the self-sacrifice of an elderly woman, willing to commit official malfeasance to save her lover from disgrace and debtor’s prison. Written in 1873,
A summary of Sergei Lukyanenko’s "In Search of Lost Tomorrow"
This book is a science fiction novel set in 2024. It describes the fate of people forcibly integrated into an alien galactic community. Higher intelligences ruthlessly manipulate living planets to save them from cosmic threats.
"The Admirer" by Anna Jane, summary
This 2019 book is a romantic psychological thriller where love is intertwined with dark family secrets and criminal intrigue. The author successfully creates a thick atmosphere of suspense, making you question the reality of what’s happening to the main character.
"Flights in Dreams and in Reality" by Viktor Merezhko, summary
Viktor Ivanovich Merezhko’s screenplay, written in the late 1970s and early 1980s, chronicles three days in the life of engineer Sergei Makarov on the eve of his 40th birthdayThe work became a landmark reflection of the midlife crisis and the era of stagnation, capturing the turmoil of a hero who, despite his intellect and charm, finds himself unable to find a place in the existing reality, ruining his own life and that of those around him.
Aristotle’s Politics, Summary
This treatise, written by the greatest ancient Greek thinker around 350 BC, lays the foundations of political philosophy and views the state as the natural form of human community.
"Striped Flight" by Alexei Kapler, summary
The screenplay for this eccentric comedy was written in 1961. The plot revolves around events aboard a Soviet cargo ship transporting a shipment of predators.
"Memorial Prayer" by Grigory Gorin, summary
This play is a theatrical adaptation of Sholem Aleichem’s stories about Tevye the Milkman, created by the playwright in 1989. Grigory Gorin wrote it at the personal request of director Mark Zakharov specifically for the Moscow Lenkom Theatre.