In ancient times, a certain Taoist monk, the elder Lui, who comprehended the mystery of immortality, met at the inn with a boy named Lou. They began to talk, and the young man began to complain about his unfortunate fate: he studied for so many years, and everything vegetates without a great career. Then he … Read more
LN Tolstoy Fruits of enlightenment In St. Petersburg, in the rich house of Zvezdintsevs, in front of the mirror, a beautiful and depraved footman Grigori admires him for a long time, lazily responding to the repeated calls of Vasily Leonidich, the master’s son, flirting with Tanya, a cheerful and energetic maid. In the customary morning … Read more
Carlo Goldoni Innkeeper The Count of Albaziorita and the Marquis of Forlipopoli lived in the same Florentine hotel for almost three months, and all this time they sorted out the relationship, arguing that more importantly, a big name or a full purse: the marquis rebuked the count by the fact that his county was bought, … Read more
A long time ago among the samurai regent Mototsune Fujiwara was a kind of ugly and miserable little man who performed some simple duties. Everyone treated him disrespectfully: both coworkers and servants. He was surrounded by universal contempt, he lived a truly dog-life. His clothes were old, worn, the sword second-hand to the extreme. However, … Read more
Ch. T. Aitmatov Farewell, Gyulsary! Last autumn, Tanabai came to the collective farm office, and the brigadier said to him: “We picked you a horse, a horse.” They are getting old, true, but for your work will come down. ” Tanabai saw the pacer, and his heart ached. “So I saw each other again and … Read more
The action takes place in one of the counties of the central strip of Russia. Nikolai Alekseyevich Ivanov, a landowner, sits in his garden and reads a book. Misha Borkin, his distant relative and the manager of his estate, drunkenly returns from the hunt. Seeing Ivanov, takes aim at him with a gun, laughs at … Read more
The novel “Oblomov” by IA Goncharov was published in 1859 in the journal Otechestvennye zapiski (Fatherland Notes) and is considered the pinnacle of the writer’s entire work. The idea of the work appeared in 1849, when the author published in one of the chapters of the future novel “The Sleep of Oblomov” in the “Literary … Read more
IA Bunin A gentleman from San Francisco A gentleman from San Francisco who, in the story, has never been named by name, as the author notes, his name is not remembered either in Naples or Capri, he is traveling with his wife and daughter in the Old World for as long as two years in … Read more
Spain, early XX century. Mountain village. The play begins in the house of the Bridegroom. Mother, learning that he is going to the vineyard and wants to take a knife, breaks into curses to the one who invented the knives, and the guns and pistols are all that can kill a man. Her husband and … Read more
Jean Meillier Testament In the preface the author reports that during his lifetime he could not openly express his thoughts on the ways of managing people and their religions, since this would entail very dangerous and deplorable consequences. The purpose of this work is to expose those ridiculous errors, among which all had the misfortune … Read more