"Classics Shelved" is a completely new approach to studying the school literature curriculum, tailored to modern children. The series includes readers featuring unabridged texts. Instead of boring footnotes, every work is followed by hundreds of engaging, color-illustrated comments and notes that expand knowledge across four subjects at once: literature, Russian language, history, and geography! Do you know what "polati" (sleeping shelves) are and how they differ from a bed? What it means to "stop a horse with a shout"? Who the Junkers were and when people would exclaim "God save us!"?
Reading classic literature often raises many questions, not only for children but also for their parents!
In this book, we will break down the classics and the classic authors, explain unfamiliar words in detail, and accompany them with interesting facts and illustrations.
Thanks to colorful notes, getting to know the works of I. S. Turgenev, L. N. Tolstoy, A. P. Chekhov, and A. I. Kuprin will become an immersive dive into history and culture, offering the most unexpected discoveries and making the school curriculum truly engaging.
Pages: 352 (offset). Hardcover
Dimensions: 242x166x30 mm
Series: Classics Shelved
