Moliere Tartuffe, or Deceiver In the house of the venerable Orgon, at the invitation of the host, a certain Mr. Tartuffe settled. Orgon of the soul in him did not count, considering an incomparable model of righteousness and wisdom: Tartuffe’s speeches were exceptionally sublime, the teachings-thanks to which Orgon learned that the world is a … Read more
The narrator is a cat, just a cat that does not have a name. He does not know who his parents are, only he remembers how he got into the kitchen of a house in search of food and the host took pity on him and took shelter. It was Kusya – a school teacher. … Read more
A. Serafimovich Three friends Seven-year-old Vanjatka helps the mother: she drives the pigs in the yard, beats them with a twig. Then Vannyka runs into the stable to his father, watches him lubricate the wheels of the cart. “Vanyanka wanted to do everything that adults do, but not enough strength.” The boy decided to attach … Read more
Nibelung was one of the two kings killed by Siegfried. Then this name passed to the most Dutch knight and his fairytale subjects – the keepers of the treasure. Starting with the twenty-fifth of the avenues, the Nibelungs are called Burgundians. In the wonderful legends of the past, it is said that a girl named … Read more
M. Yu. Lermontov Masquerade Evgeny Alexandrovich Arbenin, a man of not the first youth, a player by nature and by profession, getting rich on cards, decides to change his destiny: conclude an “alliance with virtue,” marry and heal with a master. It is conceived – done. Life, however, makes a significant correction to this most … Read more
At the end of May 1812 in St. Petersburg, on Nevsky Boulevard met two friends – Vladimir Roslavlev and Alexander Zaretsky. Roslavlev mope, and cheerful Zaretsky worried about his friend’s condition. Roslavlev is in love with Polina Lidin. But not love is the cause of melancholy: at the request of the future teshi, he resigned, … Read more
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN 1770-1827 The work of the brilliant German composer Beethoven is the greatest treasure of world culture, an epoch in the history of music. It had a huge impact on the development of 19th century art. In the formation of the ideology of the Beethoven-artist, the decisive role was played by the ideas … Read more
Juhan Borgen Little Lord Norway at the beginning of the 20th century. The hero – Wilfred Sagen, the Little Lord, grows up in the hypocritical atmosphere of a rich bourgeois family. Outstanding nature of a fourteen-year-old boy disgraces the mother’s pretense (father is dead) and other relatives, their desire to protect him from real life. … Read more
The novel “Rob Roy” gives a broad and complex picture of Scottish and English public relations of the early XVIII century. Action develops quickly, more lively than in other novels of Walter Scott. The protagonist, Francis Osbaldiston, was suddenly recalled from Bordeaux to his father on an important matter. Arriving in London, a twenty-year-old young … Read more
At the very end of August, the cadet adolescence of Alexei Alexandrov is over. Now he will study in the Third Junker name of Emperor Alexander II infantry school. In the morning he visits Sinelnikov, but alone with Yulenka he manages to stay no more than a minute. Always in the foreground, always in the … Read more
The life and amazing adventures of Robinson Crusoe, a sailor from York, who lived twenty-eight years alone on an uninhabited island off the coast of America near the mouths of the Orinoco River, where he was thrown out by shipwreck, during which the whole crew of the ship except him died; with an account of … Read more
The action takes place in the 50’s. in France. The main heroine Cecile was born in a well-to-do bourgeois family, she was in the Catholic boarding house for several years, where she received secondary education. Her mother died, and she lives in Paris with her father, Reimon. The father, a forty-year-old widower, easily flits through … Read more
SIEGFRIED The second day of the tetralogy “Ring of the Nibelung” in three acts (four paintings) R. Wagner’s libretto Characters: Siegfried The traveler (the god Votan) Mime, blacksmith, nibelung Alberich, his brother Fafner, dragon Erda, the goddess of fate Brunhilde Voice of a bird Tenor Bass Tenor Bass Bass Mezzo soprano Soprano Boy or soprano … Read more
The action takes place in 1850-1853. The choir begins a story about the glorious thief Joaquin Muriete, whose ghost is still hovering over California, a free Chilean who died in a foreign land. Boys-newsmen shout news: in California, a gold rush. Attracted by distant mirages, crowds of people flock to the port of Valparaiso from … Read more
First a list of actors with detailed characteristics. Here are some of these individuals and characteristics. Pavel Nikolaevich Yeletsky, 32 years old. Petersburg official, not clever. A man is not evil, but without a heart. Olga Petrovna Yeletskaya, born Corina, his wife, 21 years old. A kind, gentle creature. Vasily Semyonitch Kuzovkin, a nobleman, who … Read more
Vanya, the son of Daria Rumyantseva, was killed at the front in 1942, and a paper with a seal and an incomprehensible but painfully suspicious signature comes in more than a year. And Daria decides that the paper is false, forged by some kind of unkind man. When the gypsies pass through the village, Daria … Read more
V. O. Pelevin Mittelshpil Initially, it seemed to me that this story is nothing more than an easy joke, a simple amusement for the author, and at the same time for the reader. But, remembering that Pelevin nothing happens for no reason, I began to look more attentively to the text, trying to see the … Read more
THE HISTORY OF THE PRESENT MAN Opera in three acts (ten scenes) Libretto by S. S. Prokofiev and M. A. Mendelson-Prokofieva Characters: Alexey, the pilot Olga, the bride of Alexei Baritone Soprano Fedya Serenka } The guys from the collective farm Rhythmic talk Grandfather Mihailo, chairman of the collective farm Petrovna, the collective farmer Varya, … Read more
An extraordinary event occurred in the Dutch city of Rotterdam. Namely: gathered in the square, the citizens could observe the following picture: a balloon dropped from the sky. Glued from old newspapers, the balloon was generally of a strange shape, resembling a hood topped down by the top. Moreover, a huge hat with the widest … Read more
In the city of Murom, Prince Paul ruled. To his wife, the devil sent a flying serpent to fornication. He appeared to him in his form, and to other people he seemed Prince Paul. Princess in all confessed to her husband, but he did not know what to do. He told his wife to ask … Read more
A poppet was lying in the dirty roadside ditch, the color of the mother for the mother of the deceased son was eternal flame of memory about his bright, but short life, a living fire. Major and still pretty face, with a slight, barely marked smile on the swollen childlike lips. flowering poppies, the author … Read more
The action takes place in the second half of the XIX century, in the provincial city, in a poor apartment on the outskirts. Lyubov Ivanovna Otradina, “a girl of noble birth,” who lives by her own labor, sews and talks with the maid. From the conversation it turns out that the beloved of the heroine, … Read more
On February 1, 1887, the ship “Lady Vane” crashed. One of his passengers, Charles Edward Prendic, who was all believed dead, was picked up in the sea on the boat after eleven months and four days. He claimed that he had spent all this time on the island, where incredible things were happening. His stories … Read more
The novel, consisting of three novels, refers to the time of the economic depression of the 1930s. Florida fisherman Harry Morgan from Key West makes a living by giving his motorboat to various rich people who came here to fish. They hire a boat together with the owner – he knows well where the biting … Read more
Part one. Data The express train to Istanbul leaves from the Syrian city of Aleppo. One of the passengers of the express is detective Hercule Poirot. In addition to him, Colonel Arbatnot, traveling from India to England, travels in the car, and a young Englishwoman from Baghdad, Miss Mary Debenham, who works as a governess … Read more
Grazhina is a young beautiful Litvinka, the daughter of the “majestic Riga ruler”. Grazhina marries the Novogrudok prince Litavor. The subjects of the prince are admired by the beauty and harmony of the young princess. Grazhyna “could still be proud that the prince is not taller than she is.” Princess shares her husband’s enthusiasm for … Read more
THE LIFE OF ALEXANDER NEVSKOGO. The first biography of Prince Alexander Yaroslavich Nevsky (1221-1262) was compiled, according to scientists, in the 80’s. XIII century. a scribe of the Vladimir Christmas monastery. Here the body of the prince was buried, and at the end of the thirteenth century. began his veneration as a saint. In the … Read more
Leningrad programmer Alexander Privalov travels by car on his way to the city of Solovets, where he is scheduled to meet. On the way, he selects two NIICHAVO employees (Research Institute of Sorcery and Magic) and drives them to Solovets, where they arrange for him to spend the night in the museum of the institute … Read more
The action of the “story” takes place in Moscow. Drunken guests disperse on an early summer morning. The owner, Eletskaya, “with a grimy eye” looks at the traces of “rampant binge” in his once magnificent, but neglected master’s house. Opening the window, Eletskaya “with sincere hatred” looks at the “magnificent capital” rising from a dream; … Read more
Sherlock Holmes is often visited by Inspector Leistred. One day he talks about a strange incident: someone stubbornly smashes the statues of Napoleon. Hearing that this was a burglary, the great detective decides to investigate. A few days ago, in a shop selling paintings and statues, the clerk left the store for a moment and … Read more
On a windy March day in 1867 along the mole of the ancient town of Lyme Regis in the southeast of England a young couple is walking. The lady is dressed in the latest London fashion in a narrow red dress without crinoline, which in this provincial backwater will begin to be worn only in … Read more
The plot of the comedy “Woe from Wit” is based on events that take place during one day in the mansion of the Moscow landowner-nobleman Famusov. From the very morning, a certain Chatsky, a young man who shines with intelligence and wit, defends the advanced ideas of the new time and ruthlessly criticizes the morally … Read more
Uncle remembers the quarrel with his little nephew, who appeared one winter night. Mentally turning to the boy, he tells him that he is a big naughty boy, who, after being carried away by something, does not know how to hold it. But nothing is more touching than the same baby, when he, being dishonored, … Read more
AI Solzhenitsyn Cancer case All gathered this terrible body – the thirteenth, cancerous. Persecuted and persecuted, silent and vigorous, hard workers and money-grubbers – they collected and depersonalized everyone, all of them are now only seriously ill, torn from the habitual situation, rejected and rejected all the familiar and native. They do not have anybody … Read more
AI Herzen Who is to blame? The action begins in the Russian province, in the estate of the rich landowner Alexei Abramovich Negro. The family gets acquainted with the teacher of the son of Negro – Misha, Dmitry Yakovlevich Krucifersky, who graduated from Moscow University as a candidate. The Negro is tactless, the teacher is … Read more
N. S. Leskov Imprinted Angel In the inn, some travelers are sheltering from the weather. One of them states that “every saved man… the angel guides,” and the angel himself led him. The next story he says, kneeling, because everything that happened – “a very sacred and terrible thing.” Markusha, an “insignificant man,” born in … Read more
At the dawn, horses are driven from the bar horse yard. From the entire herd stands a serious, pensive-looking old piebald gelding. He does not show impatience, like all other horses, dutifully waits until old man Nester saddles him, and with sadness watches what is happening, knowing in advance every minute. Having driven the herd … Read more
Vladimir Tendryakov’s childhood was spent in the bleak epoch of postrevolutionary Russia and Stalin’s repressions, all the horror of which remained in his memory a gloomy trace of childhood memories that formed the basis of the story “Bread for a Dog.” Perhaps, it was the effect of children’s impressions that helped the author to describe … Read more
Hans Christian Andersen was born on April 2, 1805 in Odense on the island of Funen. Andersen’s father, Hans Andersen (1782-1816), was a poor shoemaker, the mother of Anna Marie Andersdatter (1775-1833), was a washerwoman from a poor family, she had to beg in her childhood for alms, she was buried in a cemetery for … Read more
The author recalls that he strove to imitate the incoherent, but seemingly logical form of the dream. Time and space does not exist, clinging to the tiny foundation of reality, imagination spinning its yarn. Heroes are split, evaporated, condensed, merged together. Above all – the mind of the dreamer. In the prologue Daughter of Indra … Read more
The story is written on behalf of the boy Viti. He was told to touch potatoes. Grandmother measured his “lesson” with two trousers, and he sat all morning in a cold, frosty cellar. Only the dream of new pants with a pocket that the grandmother Kateryna promised to sew to the first of May – … Read more
Charles Dickens Hard Times There are two close friends in the city of Kokstown – if you can talk about friendship between people, equally deprived of warm human feelings. They are both at the top of the social ladder: and Josiah Bounderby, “the famous rich man, banker, merchant, manufacturer”; and Thomas Gradgrind, “a man of … Read more
P. Calderon Invisible Lady The action takes place in the XVII century. in Madrid. Arrived in the city, Don Manuel and his servant Cosme are looking for the house of don Juan. Don Manuel and don Juan studied together and fought together, they are old friends. On the street there are two ladies whose faces … Read more
The hero of the story, the Dreamer (we do not know his name), has lived in St. Petersburg for eight years, but he has not managed to make any acquaintances. He is 26 years old. Summer, everyone went to their dachas. The dreamer wanders around the city and feels abandoned, not meeting people who are … Read more
Sophocles King Oedipus This is a tragedy about fate and freedom: it’s not the freedom of a person to do what he wants, but to take responsibility for what he does not want. The city of Thebes was ruled by King Laia and Queen Jocasta. From the Delphic oracle, King Laius received a terrible prediction: … Read more
O. Henry The Last Sheet Two young artists, Sue and Johnsy, rent an apartment on the top floor of a house in New York’s Greenwich Village, where artists have long settled. In November, Johnsy becomes pneumonia. The verdict of the doctor is disappointing: “She has one chance out of ten, and if she wants to … Read more
Karl Tsukmeyer General of the Devil The General of Aviation Harras receives guests at the restaurant Otto. This is the only restaurant in Berlin, where you can hold private banquets in wartime under the special permission of Goering. Accordingly, one of the halls has a newest listening device for the Gestapo. The general arrives at … Read more
A. N. Ostrovsky The Bride of God The action takes place in a large fictional city on the Volga – Bryakhimov. An open area near the coffee shop on the Volga boulevard. Knurov (“of the big dealers of recent times, an elderly man with a huge fortune,” as mentioned in the remark) and Vozhevatov (“a … Read more
Suddenly, at the age of forty-nine, he dies from a heart attack by Mario Kalyado. After him remains a large family – the wife of Carmen and five children. Accepting condolences and then, sitting awake at the body of her husband, Carmen silently leads an endless conversation with him. From this inner monologue the story … Read more
Sadko – a young guslar from Veliky Novgorod At the beginning of the story, he is poor, proud and proud. His only asset is the ragged gusli, on which he plays, passing from one merry feast to another. However, the day comes, and after him another, the third, when Sadko is not invited to an … Read more