Two in December He waited for her at the station for a long time. It was a frosty sunny day, and he liked the abundance of skiers, the creak of fresh snow and the coming two days: first – an electric train, and then – twenty kilometers through the forests and fields on skis to … Read more
“Life is a story told by a cretin, full of noise and fury, but devoid of meaning.” To retell this story differently from what it was originally told means to try to tell a very different story, except that the people in it will have the same names, they will be bound by the same … Read more
Tirso Molina The pious Marta Doña Marta and donja Lucia, the daughter of Don Gómez, mourn the brother killed by Don Felipe. But both girls are in secret from each other in love with Don Felipe and in fact are more worried about his fate than grieve about his brother. Marta guesses about Lucia’s love … Read more
H. Murakami Dance, dance, dance Several years passed. The hero works for glossy magazines. His life is empty. There are no friends, women come and go. He remembers his Friend and decides to find her. For this, the hero again goes to the hotel “Dolphin”. But everything changed there, as if by magic. In place … Read more
In his room sits composer Salieri. He complains about the injustice of fate. Remembering his childhood, he says that he was born with love for high art, that, as a child, he cried involuntarily and sweet tears at the sounds of the church organ. Early rejecting children’s games and fun, he selflessly devoted himself to … Read more
Three years have passed since the death of Sherlock Holmes. In London, under very mysterious circumstances, the young Count Ronald Adair was killed. Ronald was a fan of the card game and was in several clubs. A month and a half before his death, Ronald paired with Colonel Moran won a large sum. On that … Read more
Yu. P. Kazakov Adam and Eve Artist Ageev lived in a hotel in the northern city, came here to write fishermen. It was autumn. Above the city, over low brown clouds, drifting clouds from the west over the gray-brown storm-drenched forests, it started to drizzle ten times a day, and the lake rose above the … Read more
Five people of rich and young people arrived one night to have a good time at the St. Petersburg balik. Champagne was drunk a lot, the girls were beautiful, dancing and noise did not stop; but it was somehow boring, awkward, everyone seemed to think that it was all unnecessary. One of the five young … Read more
Over the novel “The Hero of Our Time” M. Yu. Lermontov worked in 1838-1840. His idea was born at the time of the writer’s reference to the Caucasus in 1838. The first parts of the novel were published within one year in the journal Otechestvennye zapiski. They aroused interest from the readers. Lermontov, seeing the … Read more
Owner The action takes place in London in 1886-1887. In the house of the old Jolyon family celebration, a reception in honor of the engagement of Miss June Forsythe with Mr. Philip Bosini. There are many guests, the family is very numerous. Within the Forsyte clan, as in society, the law of competition reigns, the … Read more