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
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
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”
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
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
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
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
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
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
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