The action takes place in a county town, in the house of merchant Tortsov, during Svyatok. Action first Day. A small steward’s room. In the depths of the door, to the left there is a window, near the window there is a table and a chair, in the corner there is a bed with a … Read more
Jack London The Hearts of Three Francis Morgan, the wealthy heir of the owner of large enterprises, Richard Henry Morgan, ponders what to do in lazy idleness. At this time, the former rival of the late RG Morgan in exchange games, Sir Thomas Regan, learns from Alvarez Torres that he knows the location of the … Read more
Artist of the original genre Pavel Durov spends the night in the penalty area of the traffic police of a provincial town. The bumper of his “Zhiguli” is broken by “ZIL” – polowalk, he can not be sheltered at night. Reflecting on why he travels all over the country for no apparent purpose, Durov feels … Read more
Kansas City, a hot summer evening. Two adults and four children sing psalms and give out brochures of religious content. The older boy clearly does not like what he is forced to do, but his parents are passionately devoted to the work of saving lost souls, which, however, brings them only moral satisfaction. Ace Griffiths, … Read more
March 1966; Thirty -four – year-old engineer Konstantin Platonovich Zorin remembers how he, a native of the village, was humiliated by city bureaucrats and how he once hated all the village. And now he is pulling back into his native village, so he came here on leave for twenty-four days, and he wants to heat … Read more
On how Wang Xinzhi’s death saved his whole family During the time of the Southern Song Dynasty, many were honored with sovereigns. But it happened more than once that worthy men never met with a happy fate. The rich man Wang Shizhong got sued for murder, but somehow got out. He had a younger brother, … Read more
The protagonist and narrator of this story, a poet who worked in the editorial office of a youth newspaper right after the institute and because of his free-thinking was dismissed. He was not upset, said good-bye to his friends and through Moscow he went home to Abkhazia, the city of Mukhus. In Moscow, he still … Read more
G. Senkevich Crusaders The events addressed by Senkevich in the novel “The Crusaders” were of great importance both for the history of Poland and for the Slavic and Baltic peoples neighboring it, which became the object of German feudal aggression. This is the decisive stage in the struggle against the Teutonic Order, when the famous … Read more
On the table lie cartridges, a ram’s bone, a field map, a brief, a bridle, a crust of bread. At the table sits Nikolka Koshevoy, squadron commander, he fills out the questionnaire. “A rusty sheet says sparingly: Nikolai Koshevoi, squadron commander, a surveyor, a member of the RCYU, age 18 years.” He looked like a … Read more
VA Kaverin Scandalist, or Evenings on the Vasilievsky Island Professor Stepan Stepanovich Lozhkin, who had been doing his literary works of heresy and sects of the XV-XVI centuries all his life, suddenly began to visit “dangerous thought”. His existence: lecturing, working on manuscripts, relations with his wife – seems to him monotonous and “automatic.” Malvina … Read more