Once on a ferry Martin Eden, a sailor, twenty years old, defended against a gang of hooligans Arthur Morse, Arthur about the same years as Martin, but belongs to people well-to-do and educated. As a token of gratitude – and at the same time wanting to amuse the family with an eccentric acquaintance – Arthur … Read more
The action of comedy takes place in Moscow, in the first years of the reign of Alexander II. The old important official, Aristarkh Vladimirovich Vyshnevsky, who goes into the large “richly furnished hall” with his young wife Anna Pavlovna from her rooms, reproaches her for being cold, complains that her indifference can not overcome anything. … Read more
VF Odoevsky Princess Mimi All mysterious stories begin with occasional conversation, accidentally abandoned words, fleeting encounters. Where is to be such a meeting, if not at the ball? Princess Mimi had long disliked Baroness Dauertal. The princess was already thirty. She still could not get married, but continued to attend balls. She perfectly learned to … Read more
A. J. Cronin Brody Castle The action takes place in the 1830s. in the small Scottish town of Levenford. In the house of quaint architecture, the project of which James Brodie himself developed, live: the elder mother of the head of the family, whose only entertainment is food, his wife Margaret, the exhausted woman, the … Read more
Twenty-five-year-old Valentine, a high school teacher, wakes up one morning with a sense of happiness, because he dreamed of a rainbow. Valentine is late for work – he teaches French in high school. He thinks that lately he has become too often to lie, and understands: lying on trifles means that he is not free … Read more
In January 1886, the work “Tosca” (Chekhov) was published in the “Petersburg newspaper”. The summary of the story is given in this article. Connoisseurs of literary works of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov “Tosca” is recognized as his best work in the initial period of the writer’s work. By this time the author already knew the general … Read more
VB Shklovsky Sentimental Journey Before the revolution, the author worked as an instructor of a spare armored battalion. In February of the seventeenth year he arrived with his battalion to the Tauride Palace. The revolution saved him, as well as other spare ones, from months of wearisome and humiliating sitting in the barracks. In this … Read more
Olga Vyacheslavovna Zotova was nicknamed as a viper for her vitality. When she was sixteen, her house was burnt, her parents were killed, they tried to decide her own way, but only wounded her. She knew the attackers, one of them – Valka Brykin – a scoundrel, hated even by his father. This is the … Read more
When analyzing the story “The joke”, it is noteworthy that the narrative is conducted in two times. The present moment (emphasized by the use of verbs in the present tense) towards the end of the story becomes a distant past, which the narrator remembers. He is the main character, and the whole plot is built … Read more
In accordance with the original intention of the author, who wanted to create a modern “Divine Comedy”, the composition of the play, which used the materials of the Frankfurt process over the Nazi criminals of 1963-1965. repeats the structure of the first and second parts of the epic Dante: in each “song” – three episodes, … Read more