Brüder Grimm — Jacob (1785—1863) und Wilhelm (1786—1859) — deutsche Linguisten und weltberühmte Geschichtenerzähler. Seit ihrer Studienzeit sammeln sie Volksgeschichten, Legenden und verarbeiten sie für ihre Zeitgenossen. Die Märchen der Brüder Grimm sind so realistisch und höchst moralisch, dass selbst Erwachsene sie mit großer Freude lesen.

Moby-Dick or, the Whale (1851) is a novel by the American writer Herman Melville (1819–1891). It is the story of the sailor Ishmael about the obsessive pursuit of Ahab, the captain of the whaling ship Pequod, after a white sperm whale. The dramatic conflict between man and nature has captivated readers of this epic saga for the second century in a row.

The Forsyte Saga brought the English writer John Galsworthy (1867–1933) world fame and the Nobel Prize in Literature. In the pragmatic world of the Forsytes, neither romantic passions nor full-blooded feelings are recognized. The Forsytes are respectable bourgeois whose lives are completely subordinated to proprietary interests, which form the basis of their well-being and power.

«The Sign of the Four» is a novel by the English writer Arthur Conan Doyle (1859—1930) about the famous detective Sherlock Holmes. Who sends Miss Morstan the pearl boxes every year? Abloody trail stretches to the treasures, which can only be attacked by knowing what the «Sign of the Four» is and who are these four.

The Brangwen sisters, Ursula and Gudrun, are the main characters of D. Lawrence’s novel Women in Love (1920). Ursula is a schoolteacher, and Gudrun is an artist.

David Herbert Lawrence (1885–1930) in the semi-auto-biographical novel Sons and Lovers (1913) touched on the topic of ambiguous relationships with parents. The main character of the novel, Paul Morel, has a suffocating relationship with his mother, who gives him all her love after the death of her husband and eldest son. This prevents him from building his own life and creates emotional conflicts with his mistresses.

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896–1940) — American writer, author of works about the generation of the «Jazz Age». «The Great Gatsby» novel depicts America in the 1920s. The main character is a man who created himself according to the recipes of American morality, rich, but very lonely.

Jane Austen (1775—1817) is still rightly considered the «first lady» of English literature. Her novels are full of subtle psychologism. «Pride and Prejudice» is a story about the love of a wealthy aristocrat and a modest but proud daughter of the owner of a small estate in the province.

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890—1937) was an American writer who created his masterpieces in the genre of fantasy and horror. The most famous works of the author are the stories «The Call of Cthulhu», «Dagon», etc. In his works, humanity is ruled by a chaotic universe.