In a small village on the border of the Oryol and Kursk provinces, the estate of Ivan Efremovich Prostakov, living with his wife and daughters, Katerina and Elizaveta, is located. It is here that the author presents us the main character. Prince Gavrilo Simonovich Chistiakov is in the most miserable state and taken into the … Read more
AP Chekhov Duel In a small town on the Black Sea coast, two friends are talking during a bath. Ivan Andreevich Laevsky, a young man of about twenty-eight, shares the secrets of his personal life with the military doctor Samoilenko. Two years ago he got along with a married woman, they fled from Petersburg to … Read more
Jack London White Fang White Fang ‘s father – a wolf, a mother, Kichi, – half wolf, half dog. So far, he has no name. He was born in the Northern Glush and survived the only one of the whole brood. In the North, one often has to starve, and this has ruined his sisters … Read more
IV Goethe The Wanderings of Wilhelm Meister, or the Defiant The novel is a continuation of the “Years of Wilhelm Meister’s Teaching.” The hero who, at the end of the previous book, became a member of the Tower Society (or the Renouncers, as they call themselves), receives from his comrades the assignment to go on … Read more
Yablonsky comes to Petersburg; he meets with Sudeikin, the inspector of the secret police. Recently in Kharkov, Yablonsky gave the police to Vera Figner. Yablonsky requires an audience with the minister and the sovereign; Sudeikin expects for himself different awards. Sergei Degaev, a revolutionary, arrives in St. Petersburg; he remembers his Moscow childhood, his younger … Read more
XVI century. Henry, a boy from a noble French family who grew up in a provincial Bearna, after passing through the dangers of the St. Bartholomew’s night, trials and intrigue, becomes King of France Henry IV. Part I. Pyrenees The boy’s name was Heinrich. The mother instructed Henry to take care of the relative and … Read more
In the county town in a small hospital wing there is a room number 6 for the mentally ill. It “smells of sour cabbage, wick fumes, bugs and ammonia, and this stench makes you feel at first like you are entering a menagerie.” There are five people in the ward. The first is “a thin … Read more
Celestial clouds are called eternal pilgrims, who constantly travel across the sky. “Steppe azure” and “chain of pearly” space they rush from north to south. The same fate is prepared for the lyrical hero. Heavenly clouds, eternal wanderers! Steppe azure, a chain of pearls You rush, as if I, exiles, From the lovely north to … Read more
Part one Like all girls, Mary, born in a small town in the Brazilian province, dreams of love, marriage and children. However, in love she is not lucky. All the novels with cute boys left with a failure. Every time Mary behaves wrong and misses her chance. She allows herself to dream of children and … Read more
The action takes place in the XIII century. in France, in Languedoc and Brittany, where the uprising of the Albigoys, against which the Pope organizes the crusade, is beginning to flare up. The army, designed to help the overlords, is moving from the north. The play begins with a scene in the courtyard of the … Read more