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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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