11+ hour ago  (479+ words) This week's book: British novelist john Fowles's debut novel "the collector" John Robert Fowles was an English writer, novelist, and essayist considered one of the key literary figures of the second half of the 20th century. His prose occupies an intermediate…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (376+ words) This week's book: Colleen Hoover's love story-drama "reminders of him" Margaret Colleen Hoover (n'e Fennell) was born on December 11, 1979, in Sulphur Springs, Texas. She grew up in the small town of Saltillo. The future writer's childhood was spent in a…...

4+ week, 3+ hour ago  (296+ words) Before publication, the novel had already risen to the top of Amazon's bestseller list in France. In the UK, the book was released on September 10, 2015, and in Russia in November. At the end of the year, The New York Times…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (453+ words) A debate on predestination, courage, and forgiveness at "Stradarium" The main goal of the discussion "Harry Potter and the Wardrobe" was to determine whether J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books and C.S. Lewis's "Chronicles of Narnia" can be considered Christian works. Doctor of…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (249+ words) The first Russian edition of "Swedish Folk Tales" collected by Gunnar Ulof Hylten-Cavallius and George Stephens in the 19th century. The decisive factor for Hylten-Cavallius's turn to folklore was his acquaintance at the age of seventeen with the four-volume collection "Swedish…...