Vladislav Trotsenko – illustratör

In the history of literature Alexander Blok came in as an outstanding lyric poet. And he began his creative career precisely with a book of mystical poems about the beautiful Lady. The unit is independent and unique. The cult of his beautiful Lady is a protest against petty-bourgeois prose of life, a poetic hymn to the depths of feelings and emotions, the ascension of sincere, unique Love to the highest pedestal.

According to many sources, it was the book "Uncle Tom''s Cabin" that served as one of the impulses that moved the unshakable foundations and unleashed the Civil War in the United States. And yet - it brought worldwide fame to the American writer Harriet Beecher Stowe. In the novel, with an amazing brightness, the inhumanity of slavery is depicted, when a person becomes an object of purchase and sale, and his life is worth nothing. The characters of the work - slave Uncle Tom, mulat Harris and his courageous wife Eliza, concubine Cassie - are extremely vital and colorful.

It was doubtless for everyone: the old boat, that carried a mountain of silver ingots to the island, sank in an unknown place. But only the fearless and everyone''s favorite sailor Nostromo knows that this is not true: treasures are hidden in the place only he knows.Each time, sailing to the island, he took two or three silver ingots, believing that "it is necessary to become rich slowly." But every day the former merry fellow became more and more withdrawn and irritable. Treasures took possession of him. And his life was interrupted by an accidental, but accurate shot of an old soldier.Pretty illustrations by Vladislav Trotsenko provide you with new impressions from reading this legendary story.

Probably, no one is surprised by the statement that the most famous and popular worldwide detective is none other than Sherlock Holmes. He and debuts the investigation of crimes in "Studies in crimson" with his faithful companion doctor of medicine Watson. On behalf of the doctor and is a narrative. The story of Arthur Conan Doyle marked the beginning of a whole new milestone in the detective genre and marked a new round in the popularization of world fiction.