The action takes place in Austria-Hungary, before the November Revolution of 1918 K., a young man of about thirty years, arrives in the Village on a late winter night. He settles down for the
The comedy “Woe from Wit” is both a picture of morals, and a gallery of living types, and a burning satire, and most of all a comedy. As a picture, it is huge. Her
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While tired of prayer, Jesus sleeps in a quiet sleep on the Mount of Olives, the Almighty “among the myriad of worlds of radiant” converses with the Archangels. Archangel Eloah announces that the Messiah
The narrator remembers how they walked along the big road, and in the young birch forest nearby the scythe mowed and sang. This happened a long time ago. And the life that everyone lived
The scene is Paris and the Swiss village of Saas-Fee. Time is deliberately not specified. In the center of the narrative are three families – Profitandie, Molyneux and Aziza-Wedeli. They are closely associated with
I. Ivan the Barefoot In the yard of the house where I live, comes Ivan Petrov, nicknamed “Barefoot.” He stands by the logs, but does not chop them for firewood. I know that he
J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye Seventeen Holden Kolfild, who is in a sanatorium, recalls “the crazy story that happened last Christmas,” whereupon he “just did not give the ends”, long ill,
Fight with the Novgorodians Ninety years old lives in Novgorod Buslay. He does not argue with anyone and does not quarrel with anyone: neither with Novgorod, nor with Pskov, nor with Moscow. When Buslai
Six years had passed since the upset wedding of Krechinsky. It would seem that the landowner Muromsky, his sister Atuyev and Lidochka’s daughter should live peacefully in the village, forgetting about the “libelous” history