Part one Nikolai Petrovich Pluzhnikov was awarded a military rank, gave out the lieutenant’s uniform and a heavy TT. The most beautiful evening has begun. He did not have any girls, and he invited Zoya, the librarian. Then all the guys went on vacation, and Kolya was asked to help in the school. He had … Read more
Forty-two-year-old Leonid Soshnin, a former criminal investigation operative, returns home from the local publishing house, to an empty apartment, in the worst of spirits. The manuscript of his first book, “The Life of the Most Expensive” after five years of waiting is finally accepted for production, but this news does not please Soshnin. The conversation … Read more
Silvio, King of Clubs, is extremely agitated and extremely dejected by the illness of his only son, Prince Tartaglia. The best doctors determined the ailment of the Crown Prince as the result of the deepest hypochondria and amicably renounced the unfortunate one. There was only one last resort not to give Tartaglia the color of … Read more
One of the most famous works of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov in humorous form shows the depth of ignorance and the strength of prejudices of people who have power and position in society. An important person, a retired official and general, Alexei Buldeev, turns out to be no less superstitious and far from a rational solution … Read more
The Trojan War was started by the gods to end the heroes’ time and the present, human, iron age came. Who did not die near the walls of Troy, he had to die on the way back. Most of the surviving Greek leaders sailed to their homeland, as they sailed to Troy – a common … Read more
Menippus tells the Friend of his extraordinary journey, striking the interlocutor with precise data on the distance from the Earth to the Moon, to the Sun and, finally, to the very sky – the dwelling of the Olympian gods. It turns out that Menippus only returned to Earth today; he stayed with Zeus. A friend … Read more
Once upon a time there was Tsar Berendey, he was married for three years, but there were no children. The Tsar somehow inspected his state, said goodbye to the queen and spent eight months in absence. The ninth month was running out when he approached the capital and decided to rest. I wanted to drink, … Read more
W. M. Thackeray Newcome In the Overture, which is a prologue to the narrative, the representatives of English society are compared to the heroes of fables who are old as the world – cowards and braggarts, offenders and their victims, rogues and simpletons. Good and evil are mixed, and the poor man is not necessarily … Read more
IV Goethe Years of the Teaching of Wilhelm Meister We meet a young hero when they have two passions – to the theater and Mariana, and he is full of happy enthusiasm and enthusiastic plans. His father, a respectable burgher, created his initial capital by selling a collection of father’s paintings, and then made his … Read more
The beginning of the XIX century. The city of Kalinov, standing on the steep bank of the Volga. In the first act of the play, the reader sees a public urban garden. Here the clerk of the merchant Wild Kudryash, the self-taught mechanic Kuligin and the philistine Shapkin are talking to each other. It’s about … Read more