In front of me is a picture of the famous Russian landscape painter N. P. Krymov “Winter Evening.” On this canvas is a small village in winter. Looking at the picture, the viewer has a sense of peace, tranquility and warmth, despite the fact that the author painted the winter. In the foreground of the … Read more
Glazastik lived in a small house on the main street of Meikomba. The Finch family was one of the oldest in the district and consisted of three people. The head of the family, Atticus, a lawyer, worked as a lawyer in court and kept his own law firm. He was a widower a few years … Read more
The novel tells of one day of the sixteenth day of June 1904 from the life of a 34-year-old Dublin Jew Leopold Bloom and twenty-two-year-old Stephen Daedalus Three parts of a huge book, divided into eighteen episodes, should, according to the author, relate to the Homeric Odyssey. But this connection with the ancient Greek epic … Read more
Henrik Ibsen Brand West Coast of Norway. Cloudy weather, morning half-light. Brand, a middle-aged man in black clothes and a knapsack behind his shoulders, makes his way west over the mountains to the fjord, where his native village lies. Brand holding fellow travelers – a peasant with his son. They argue – a straight path … Read more
In one of the remote provinces in his estate Tugilov lives a retired guard Ivan Petrovich Berestov, long widowed and not going anywhere. He is engaged in farming and considers himself to be “the smartest person in the whole neighborhood”, although he reads nothing but the “Senate Gazette.” Neighbors love him, although they consider him … Read more
Peter stands proudly on the banks of the Neva River and reflects on the majestic city that he wants to build, that would be one step closer to Europe. At the end of a hundred years, a beautiful mighty city, was erected in a deserted place. Solemnly exalted, he changed the darkness and chaos of … Read more
Main characters: Mishka Dodonov is a boy of 12 years, his family is a mother and two brothers (Fedka is 4 years old and Yashka is 8 years old), all other relatives of the boy died of hunger, Seryozhka Karpukhin is his friend (11 years old), peasant Prokhor, Trofim the boy who dug in the … Read more
William Saroyan The Adventures of Wesley Jackson 1942 Wesley Jackson, an eighteen-year-old resident of San Francisco, drafted into the army. He loves the song “Valencia”, reads a lot and reflects. His parents had long since separated. Mom and his younger brother Virgil went to their relatives, and where now the father, Wesley does not know. … Read more
S. Ya. Marshak Twelve months In the winter forest, a wolf talks to a crow, whites play with a hare in a burner. They are seen by the stepdaughter, who came to the forest for brushwood and firewood (she was sent by her cruel stepmother). The stepdaughter meets the Soldier in the forest, tells him … Read more
Events develop in the mid-50’s. The novel begins with the meeting of Father Tassin, a seventy-year-old member of the Jesuit order, and Saint-Denis, director of a large state reserve in French Equatorial Africa. Father Tassen is a scientist who studies in Africa his paleontological hypotheses and has among the missionaries the reputation of a person … Read more