Francis Coldheim in the attic of his house built the Aspen Factory – a device consisting of a dial and traps, where he launches a wasp, and from where she crawls, it depends on what death she will die. F. consults with the Factory, brings her victims – rats, gulls, dragonflies. F. is not registered, … Read more
The magical country was created by the magician Hurricapus. He long sought solitude, until he found a picturesque place. He surrounded the country with impassable mountains and deserts, so that ordinary people could not penetrate there. It is eternal summer, and the animals and birds are able to talk. For himself, the wizard erected a … Read more
The action takes place at the beginning of the 20th century (in the years immediately preceding the beginning of the First World War) in Switzerland, in a tuberculosis sanatorium located near Davos. The title of the novel evokes associations with Mount Gerzelberg (Sinful, or Magic, Mountain), where, according to legend, Minnesinger Tannhäuser spent seven years … Read more
In a nutshell: Handsome engineer is losing a lot. A girl in love with him gets money for the player, but, feeling its fineness, runs away into the night and dies of the fever. Who loved her more than life, the rich man drinks poison. A young engineer, handsome Alarin is going home. With him … Read more
Meshchanin Constantine Mironov lives in a remote provincial town. When he was a child, his parents drank and often scandalized. At the same time, the mother was a religious person and went on a pilgrimage to the monastery. My father was an oddball. For example, he amused himself by attaching wooden pipes with rubber balls … Read more
With the titan Prometheus, the benefactor of humanity, we have already met in Hesiod’s poem “Theogony”. There he is an intelligent cunning, who arranges the sharing of sacrificial bull meat between people and gods so that the best part gets to people’s food. And then, when the angry Zeus does not want people to cook … Read more
John Beaver, a young man of twenty-five, lives in London at his mother’s house, which repairs and rents apartments. John at the end of Oxford, until the crisis began, he worked in an advertising agency. Since then, nobody has been able to find a place for him. He gets up late and almost every day … Read more
T. Wilder Day eight In the summer of 1902, John Barrington Ashley from the town of Coletown, the center of a small coal mining district in southern Illinois, was brought to trial on charges of killing Breckenridge Lansing, a resident of the same city. He was found guilty and sentenced to death. Five days later, … Read more
The action takes place in France in 1942. Pre-trial detention. Several men and a boy of fifteen are sitting on the bench, anxiety and fear are on their faces, all of them were seized right on the street and German soldiers were brought here. Detainees are lost in conjecture – what is it, checking documents … Read more
O. de Balzac The Lost Illusions To feed illusions is the fate of the provincials. Lucien Chardon was originally from Angouleme. His father, a simple apothecary, in 1793, miraculously saved the girl de Rubambre, the last representative of this noble family, from the scaffold, and was thereby entitled to marry her. Their children, Lucien and … Read more