Technology Fiction

This collection of short stories includes the works of three famous American writers who contributed a great deal to world literature.

Alice's second adventure takes her through the looking glass to a place even curiouser than Wonderland. She finds herself caught up in the great looking glass chess game and sets off to become a queen. It isn't as easy as she expects: At every step she is hindered by nonsense characters who crop up and insist on reciting poems. Some of these poems, such as "The Walrus and the Carpenter" and "Jabberwocky" are as famous as the Alice stories themselves. Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime. Shakespeare's use of his poetic dramatic structure, especially effects such as switching between comedy and tragedy to heighten tension, his expansion of minor characters, and his use of subplots to embellish the story, has been praised as an early sign of his dramatic skill.

In The Merchant of Venice, the path to marriage is hazardous. To win Portia, Bassanio must pass a test prescribed by her father's will, choosing correctly among three caskets or chests. If he fails, he may never marry at all. Bassanio and Portia also face a magnificent villain, the moneylender Shylock. Portia is most remembered for her disguise as a lawyer, Balthazar, especially the speech in which she urges Shylock to show mercy that "[D]roppeth as the gentle rain from heaven". Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

Posle apokalipsisa v pod#ezde rebjatam srochno nuzhno bezhat' iz goroda. Jeto krajne slozhno po neskol'kim prichinam. Zhutkaja ssora Oli i Serezhi, kotoryj, po suti, organizoval «terakt», sozdaet v kollektive tjazheluju atmosferu. Vvedenie v gorode «osobogo polozhenija» otrezaet vse puti othoda – gorod «zapert», na ulicah tolpy policejskih. Chto zhe delat' - rebjata pridumyvajut v kafe na otshibe, kuda durnaja slava, pohozhe, tozhe dobralas'.

Kira, who is twelve years old, is intent on wasting her limited pocket money on dolls and other childish things. She lives in poor circumstances, her parents constantly arguing about the shortage of money. Kira is therefore upset by the subject of economics and wishes to avoid it. However, when she twice rescues a stray dog (later named Money by Kira), the dog, in gratitude, reveals its ability to talk. The dog seems to have an in-depth knowledge of economics.

The philosopher - whose teachings have followers even more than 20 centuries after his death – was a genius without a doubt. Many of his ideas are hotly debated ever since. Even beyond heated philosophical debates, there are plenty of useful ideas by Plato. Studying thick books for this is not necessary - just listen to this audiobook published by AB Publishing! Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

Prodolzhenie neverojatnogo audioblokbastera! Poslednee Chudo. Jepizod 3: Neschastnaja mat'. Osada. Federal'nyj rozysk. On mechtaet ostat'sja na Zemle. Tol'ko zdes' est' takie strannosti, kak okno, imja, nadezhda… s kazhdym dnem putnik iz drugoj real'nosti vstrechaet vse novye chudesa, kotorye my perestali zamechat'. No skoro emu pridetsja vozvrashhat'sja, a vyhod v ego mir zaterjan sredi beskonechnyh prostorov nashej planety. Pomoch' v poiskah sposobny lish' chetvero rebjat, okazavshihsja vne zakona, i neponjatnaja zagadka.

Shakespeare's Sonnets cover themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty, and mortality. The first 17 poems, traditionally called the procreation sonnets, are addressed to a young man urging him to marry and have children in order to immortalize his beauty by passing it to the next generation. Other sonnets brood upon loneliness, death, and the transience of life; seem to criticize the young man for preferring a rival poet; and more. Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, better known simply as Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), is a novel by Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature. Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

Prodolzhenie neverojatnogo audioblokbastera! Poslednee Chudo. Jepizod 2: Neobychnaja sem'ja. Trudnosti prekrasnoj devochki. Otvetstvennost' pri kazhdom vdohe. On mechtaet ostat'sja na Zemle. Tol'ko zdes' est' takie strannosti, kak okno, imja, nadezhda… s kazhdym dnem putnik iz drugoj real'nosti vstrechaet vse novye chudesa, kotorye my perestali zamechat'. No skoro emu pridetsja vozvrashhat'sja, a vyhod v ego mir zaterjan sredi beskonechnyh prostorov nashej planety.

Vpervye v Rossii! Pervyj audioblokbaster. Poslednee Chudo - Jepizod 1: Puteshestvie v trushhobah. Begstvo. Zhizn' posle smerti. On mechtaet ostat'sja na Zemle. Tol'ko zdes' est' takie strannosti, kak okno, imja, nadezhda… s kazhdym dnem putnik iz drugoj real'nosti vstrechaet vse novye chudesa, kotorye my perestali zamechat'. No skoro emu pridetsja vozvrashhat'sja, a vyhod v ego mir zaterjan sredi beskonechnyh prostorov nashej planety.

The setting is a small fishing village. The former seaman Longren raises his daughter Assol alone after losing his beloved wife, making a meager living by selling the toy boats he carves from wood. As a child, Assol encounters an old man who claims to be a wizard and promises the girl that one day a prince will come on a ship with scarlet sails to carry her away. The villagers scoff but Assol believes her dream will come true one day. Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

This story takes place in the bucolic small town of Mirgorod (Myrhorod in Ukrainian), written in a style featuring grotesque, realistic portrayals of the characters. The two Ivans are gentlemen landowners, neighbors, and great friends, each one almost being the opposite image of the other. Ivan Ivanovich is tall, thin, and well-spoken, for example, while Ivan Nikiforovich is short, fat, and cuts to the point with a biting honesty. Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

The book Moscow and Muscovites, written by Mikhail Nikolayevich Zagoskin, author of the famous historical novel Yuri Miloslavskii or Russian in 1612, Roslavlev or Russian in 1812," and many other works. Moscow and Muscovites - vivid and fascinating essays, short stories, stage "of the home and social life in Moscow," since 1814, and 40s of the XIX century.

Tolstoy considered "Asya", written in 1858, one of Turgenev's two best stories, along with "First Love". Asya is a tragic story of two Russians abroad who are in love but conceal it from each other. Constance Garrett and Isabel Hapgood translated Asya in antiquated style approximately 100 years ago. Despite the story's superb character portrayals, it has rarely been available since. This translation is based on the Russian text published in 1961 in Moscow by the Government Publishing House of Artistic Literature.

In 1851, at the age of 22, Tolstoy joined the Russian army. The four years he spent as a soldier were among the most significant in his life and inspired the tales collected here. In The Cossacks, Tolstoy tells the story of Olenin, a cultured Russian whose experiences among the Cossack warriors of Central Asia leave him searching for a more authentic life. In writing about individuals and societies in conflict, Tolstoy has penned some of the most brilliant stories about the nature of war.

The plot of Poor Liza – the seduction by a young nobleman of a girl of lower social origins – was among the most conventional in European sentimentalism. What is characteristic of Karamzin's treatment of it is the subordination of the element of social conflict to the ethical problem and the avoidance of a completely negative character in the young man, Erast.

Good-natured and garrulous, Švejk becomes the Austro-Hungarian army's most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up on the outbreak of the First World War - although his bumbling attempts to get to the front serve only to prevent him from reaching it. This story of a "little man" caught in a vast bureaucratic machine combines dazzling wordplay and piercing satire to create a hilariously subversive depiction of the futility of war. Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

A Christmas Carol is one of the few English Christmas tales. It is a joyful prose hymn involving ghosts and ending with a Christmas miracle. Even if just for a day, happiness enlightens a previously grim house. On Christmas Eve, cold-hearted and greedy old Scrooge turns into a kind man and adopts Tiny Tim.