A certain yakshas, a demigod of the suite of the wealth god and the ruler of the northern mountains of Kubera, exiled by his master for some offense far to the south, at the end of summer, when all who are out of the house, especially yearning for their loved ones, sees a lonely cloud … Read more
Carlo Goldoni Theodal Community council of Montefosco in the person of three members of the community – Nardo, Cecco and Mengone, as well as two elders – Pascualotto and Marcone gathered on a very important occasion: the old Marquis Ridolfo Montefosco died, and now his son was going to enter their land, the Marquis of … Read more
Graham Green Comedians The novel takes place in Haiti in the early years of the dictator François Duvalier. The protagonist of the novel, Mr. Brown, on whose behalf the story is narrated, returns to Port-au-Prince from a trip to the US, where he tried to find a buyer for his hotel called Trianon: after Duvalier … Read more
Oscar Wilde A faithful friend One morning the old Water-rat leaned out of the hole. The duck taught her children to stand upside down in the pond (“If you do not learn to stand on your head, you will never be accepted into a good society”). Water Rat: “Love is certainly a good thing, but … Read more
After going to Moscow after dinner with friends, the hero woke up only at the next post station – Sofia. Hardly awakening the caretaker, he demanded horses, but was refused because of the night time. I had to give the coachmen for vodka, they harnessed, and the journey continued. In Tosna, the hero gets acquainted … Read more
The typist Miss Leeson – a tiny girl with long hair and huge eyes – takes a room in the attic for $ 2 from Mrs. Parker. Men who rent rooms in the neighborhood with her, crazy about a cheerful girl, whose head is always bizarre fantasies. One of the stars in the sky, the … Read more
In the summer of 1956, on a hundred and eighty-fourth kilometer from Moscow, a passenger leaves the railway line on Murom and Kazan. It is the narrator whose destiny is reminiscent of the fate of Solzhenitsyn himself. He dreams of working as a teacher in the heart of Russia, away from urban civilization. But to … Read more
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (17 (29) January 1860, Taganrog, Ekaterinoslav Province (now – Rostov Region) – 2 (15) July 1904, Badenweiler, Germany) – Russian writer, playwright, doctor. The author of short stories, novels and plays, is recognized as one of the greatest writers in world literature. Almost the entire adult life, Chekhov was a practicing physician. … Read more
In 1689, the evening of July 15, the abbot de Kerkabon, the Prior of the Madonna of Our Lady, along with her sister, walks along the seacoast. Loved by his flock is a priest and never married, 45-year-old Mademoiselle de Kercabon, talking about how in 1666 from these places to Canada their brother and wife … Read more
Thomas Mann Buddenbrooks In 1835 the Buddenbrock family, highly revered in the small German merchant city of Marienkirche, moved to a new house on Mengstraße, recently acquired by the head of the firm “Johann Buddenbroke”. The family consists of the old Johann Buddenbrock, his wife, their son Johann, daughter-in-law Elizabeth and grandchildren: ten-year-old Thomas, eight-year-old … Read more