Monsieur de Renal, the mayor of the French town of Verrieres in the Franche-Comte district, a man who is smug and vain, informs his wife about the decision to take the tutor to the house. There is no special need for a tutor, just a local rich man, Mr. Valno, this vulgar screamer, always rivaling … Read more
Anna Howe writes to her friend Clarissa Garlow that in the world there is a lot of talk about a clash between James Garlow and Sir Robert Lovelace, ending with the wound of his older brother Clarissa. Anna asks to talk about the incident, and on behalf of her mother asks to send a copy … Read more
EA Boratynsky Eda The action of the poem takes place in Finland around 1807-1808. In the spring, at sunset, two people are talking in front of the hut: the young Finn, the “kind Ed” with “golden eyes” and “pale blue eyes” and the Russian “young hussar”, a guest in her house. They are surrounded by … Read more
JB Priestley Inspector came The play unfolds on the spring evening of 1912 in the northern part of the central counties of England, in the industrial town of Brumley, in the house of the Berliners. In a narrow family circle, the engagement of Sheila, the daughter of Arthur Beurling, a wealthy industrialist, is celebrated with … Read more
KF Meyer Jürg Enach At the time of the Thirty Years’ War in Graubünden, a century ago joined Valtellin, the head of the Catholic party, the influential patrician Pompeo Plant, was convicted for collusion with Austria-Spain. With the assistance of the young Protestant pastor Yurga Yonacha, the court sentences Plant to exile and deprives civil … Read more
Discovering the secret of the tragic death of Madame D’Espana and her daughter (Murders on Morgue Street), Auguste Dupin again plunges into her melancholy meditations. However, Dupin’s role in the drama on Morgue Street earned him the glory of the seer from the Parisian police, and the prefecture repeatedly tried to resort to his services … Read more
J. Boccaccio Fiametta This is a love story told by a hero named Fiametta, addressed primarily to women in love, who have a young lady looking for sympathy and understanding. The beautiful Fiametta, whose beauty captivated everyone, spent her life in a continuous feast; loving spouse, wealth, honor and respect – all this was given … Read more
NV Gogol Viy The most long-awaited event for the seminary is vacancies when bursaks (kazennokoshtnye seminarians) are dismissed to their homes. Groups they are sent from Kiev along the high road, earning livelihood with a spiritual hymn to well-to-do farms. Three bursaks: the theologian Freebies, the philosopher Homa Brutus and the rhetorician Tiberius Horobets, – … Read more
In inhuman circumstances, it is very difficult to maintain human dignity, this does not annoy everyone – especially in the face of death, when a spark of hope still flashes in the person. Vasily Bykov The beginning of the Patriotic War is a difficult, difficult topic. How to keep a picture of that tragic time, … Read more
Ardalon Borisovich Peredonov, a teacher of literature in the local gymnasium, constantly felt himself the subject of special attention of women. Still would! The State Counselor (fifth class in the table of ranks!), A man in juice, in fact, is not married. After all, Barbara what. Varvara in which case you can and poboku. Here … Read more