US Burroughs Torch William Li was born and raised in a fashionable quiet suburb of one of the big cities of the Midwest. In childhood and adolescence, he did not stand out among peers, except that he read them much more. At the end of Harvard, William staggered for a year on pre-war Europe, the … Read more
The story “Killed under Moscow” was written by Konstantin Vorobyov in 1961. Writer epigraph to the work took Tvardovsky’s verses. Cadets go to the front The events described in the story take place in November 1941. The front line is very close to Moscow. A training company consisting of Kremlin cadets was sent to the … Read more
The narrator admires Nevsky Prospekt as the best street in St. Petersburg. In the early morning, you can meet here with simple peasants hurrying to work, beggars near the doors of a pastry shop, old men and old women waving their hands or speaking to themselves, the boys who run with empty shtofs or ready … Read more
The novel takes place in the middle of the 16th century. Madame de Chartres, for many years after her husband’s death, lived away from the court, and her daughter comes to Paris. Mademoiselle de Chartres goes to the jeweler to choose jewelry. There she accidentally meets the Prince of Cleves, the second son of the … Read more
The most difficult feat of Hercules in the service of Eurystheus was his last, twelfth feat. He had to go to the great titan Atlas, who holds the firmament on his shoulders, and get three golden apples from his gardens, which the daughter of Atlas of the Hesperides looked at. These apples grew on a … Read more
The author wishes to convince the reader that “only in the darkness of the grave a person is able to find rest”, because “the irrepressibility of passions” and “the inevitability of fate” “will never give him rest on earth.” Kurval, a wealthy gentleman of about fifty, decides to marry a second time. The first wife … Read more
Lomonosov wrote not only scientific works, but also poetic works. A significant place in his work is occupied by odes of various contents, as well as other poems, in which both the sublime and the ordinary subjects are narrated. Thus, in the poem “Two Astronomers Happened Together in a Feast…”, written in 1761, the author … Read more
AP Chekhov Steppe From the county town of the N-provincial province, a battered britzka departs in the July morning, in which the merchant Ivan Ivanovich Kuzmichev, the rector of the N-th church of Fr. Christopher of Syria (“a little long-haired old man”) and nephew of Kuzmichev’s boy Yegorushka of nine years, sent by his mother, … Read more
For twenty-four years, the narrator lived in a very large city. Forty-eight days ago he graduated with honors from the medical faculty of the university and was appointed head of the Nikolsky medical hospital, although he wanted to work in a county town forty miles from Nikolsky, where there was electricity and four doctors with … Read more
During the retreat under Oskol, the regiment throws fresh trenches. For the defense there is the first battalion commanded by Shiryaev and his lieutenant Kerzhentsev. Two days later the battalion leaves and on the way the heroes learn that the regiment is defeated. On the way, the battalion stops in sheds, where it is necessary … Read more