Characters: Wheels. Bukin. Frolov. Gomyr. Repnikov. Zolotuyev. Tanya. Masha. Repnikova. Merry, Serious – students. Beauty. Comsorg. Strict. The policeman. Action first In the street at the bus stop in anticipation of transport is Tanya, a girl of 19 years, reading posters. Student of the last course Nikolai Kolesov, a young man of 24 years old, … Read more
England, 1990 – 1920’s. The history of Chester Nimmo, a man who was only one step away from the post of prime minister of England, is told by his ex-wife. Nina Woodville gets acquainted with Chester when he serves as a clerk in an office for the purchase and sale of real estate in a … Read more
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Confession “I told the truth: if anyone knows anything contrary to what is said here, he knows only lies and slander.” His first misfortune, the author of these lines, calls his own birth, which cost his mother’s life. The child grows, showing the shortcomings inherent in his age; “I was a chatterbox, gourmet, … Read more
In the first sentence of MA Osorgin’s story “Pensna” contains the statement that things “live their own life.” The writer “clock paces, it is sick, coughing”. “the stove hissing.” “scissors cry”. Osorgin actively uses impersonation, through which inanimate objects acquire animate qualities. For example, the clock does not go, but walk, like a cough passed … Read more
Street zucchini, vulgar and cheap, but with a claim to romance: huge identical ships are floating on the wallpaper… A light raid of unreality: the master and the sexual are alike, like twins, one of the visitors is “spitting Verlaine,” the other is “poured out” Hauptmann. ” Drunken companies, loud noise. Individual replicas, sketchy dialogues … Read more
L. Ariosto Comedy about the chest The action of the first “scientist” comedy in Italy takes place on the island of Metellino, in vague “antique” times. In the prologue, it is declared that modern authors can compete with the ancients in craftsmanship, although the Italian language is still inferior in euphony to the Greek and … Read more
L. de K. Vowenarg Reflections and maxims It is easier to say a new word than to reconcile words that have already been said. Our mind is more perceptive than consistent, and covers more than we can comprehend. If a thought can not be expressed in simple words, then it is insignificant and must be … Read more
Curculion means “Bread worm”. This is the nickname of a one-eyed freeloader, he took root, a cunning and a glutton who leads the intrigue in this comedy. His breadwinner and patron is an ardent young man in love; the girl that this young man loves belongs to the evil pimp, and it needs to be … Read more
Nineteen-year-old Mable Dunchen, accompanied by his uncle – the old seaman Cap – and two Indians for many days are making their way through the endless American jungle from New York to a small English fortress on the shore of Lake Ontario. They keep the path to Mabel’s father, Sergeant Dunham. Overcoming the next “winded” … Read more
April. In the Russian village there are German soldiers. The snow melts, the bodies of the dead killed in winter look out of mud mixed with water. The company is delivered to four Russian partisans: at dawn the Germans must shoot them. Among them is a young woman. Steinbrenner – a blond 19-year-old boy with … Read more
Jayadeva Sung Govinda Erotic-allegoric poem in honor of Krishna – Govinda (“Shepherd”), the earthly incarnation of the god Vishnu. In the blossoming spring time in the Vrndavana forest on the bank of the Yamuna, Krishna’s beloved Radha languishes in separation from her beloved. The friend tells that Krishna leads cheerful round dances with charming cowherd … Read more
Kuchum lives in the world, and he owns all of the Siberian land, works: he writes royal orders, collects tribute, he does not pay anyone. Rich very king Kuchum, he has plenty of everything: both precious necklaces and monsters and furs. He has two beautiful wives, one blue-eyed, the other black-eyed, Kuchum loves wives, cherishes, … Read more
Events take place many years ago in a distant African country. Boas tirelessly hunt for rabbits, and monkeys and elephants observe neutrality. Despite the fact that rabbits usually run very fast, at the sight of boas they seem to fall into a stupor. Boas do not choke rabbits, but as if hypnotize them. Once a … Read more
1902 President of the United States – Teddy Roosevelt. City of Kew-Rochelle, New York. On the fashionable Avenue of Krugozor, in a house on a hill surrounded by Norwegian maples, the family – Grandfather, Father, Mother, Baby and Younger Brother Mother – live. The life of the family is full of spirituality and is blessed … Read more
The action takes place in the first half of the XVIII century. in the German Duchy of Württemberg. Isaac Simon Aandauer, the court banker of the Duke of Eberhard-Ludwig and his favorite Countess von Wurben, a rich man and very influential, has long been eyeing Josef Süss Oppenheimer, who works as a financier in various … Read more
William Faulkner Mansion For the murder of a Houston farmer Mink Snoups was sentenced to life imprisonment in the prison prison of Parchment, but he did not regret a moment that he then pulled the trigger. Houston deserved death – and not by the fact that, according to the verdict of Bill Warner, Mink spent … Read more
The action takes place in Italy, in a seaside hotel. The main characters are Americans, a married couple. The husband’s name is George, the author does not mention the name of his wife. The husband lies on the bed in the hotel room and reads the book. An American is standing by the window and … Read more
AN Ostrovsky Profitable place The action of comedy takes place in Moscow, in the first years of the reign of Alexander II. The old important official, Aristarkh Vladimirovich Vyshnevsky, who goes out into the big “richly furnished hall” with his young wife Anna Pavlovna (both in the morning negligee) from her rooms, reproaches her in … Read more
The work precedes the author’s instruction about the possible double reading of his work: one option is a sequential reading of fifty-six chapters forming the first two parts of the novel, ignoring the third, combining the “optional chapters”; another option is a whimsical order of movement according to the chapters in accordance with the table … Read more
Kalidasa Shakuntala The powerful Dushyant king comes hunting in a peaceful forest of hermits and meets three young girls, watering flowers and trees. In one of them, Shakuntala, he falls in love at first sight. Posing himself as a servant of the king, Dushyanta asks who she is, for she fears that, being of a … Read more
Parents of the ten-year-old Luzhin by the end of the summer finally decide to tell their son that after returning from the village to Petersburg he will go to school. Afraid of the impending change in his life, little Luzhin runs off the station back to the estate before the arrival of the train and … Read more
In the back streets of one of the towers of the great cathedral, someone’s long-decayed hand inscribed the word “rock” in Greek. Then the word itself disappeared. But from him was born a book about a gypsy, hunchback and a priest. On January 6, 1482, on the occasion of the baptismal feast in the Palace … Read more
Herzen’s book begins with the stories of his nurse about the troubles of the Herzen family in Moscow in 1812 occupied by the French (AI himself then was a small child); ends with European impressions of 1865-1868. Actually, memories in the exact sense of the word “Past and thoughts” can not be named: we find … Read more
The hero of a whole series of Wodehouse’s novels is the young Englishman Bertie Wooster, who is always accompanied by his servant Jeeves. In the novels there is such a kind of comedy of positions, and the characters constantly fall into absurd situations, but with honor come out of them. So in the “Code of … Read more
Hall in the palace Holy Rood. The queen’s page runs in. He says there are riots in the city. Some unfamiliar man at the head of the crowd – mummers, masks, dancers with bells, people in black hoods – threatened, predicted and urged the people not to obey the queen. The courtier of Queen Riccio … Read more
Once in Kiev, Captain Gorobets celebrated the wedding of his son, to which a lot of people gathered and named brother of the owner Danilo Burulbash with his young beautiful wife, Katerina and the baby son. Did not come to the wedding only Katerina’s father is an old man who returned home recently after a … Read more
The story “The Dawns Here Are Quiet” by Boris Vasilyev is one of the most heartfelt and tragic works about the Great Patriotic War. First published in 1969. The narrative of five girls-gunmen and a sergeant-major, who entered the battle with sixteen German saboteurs. Heroes speak with us from the pages of the story about … Read more
Part one. Milk Pumps Boer farm. Military court. British officers sentenced to death the drill of David Potter for poisoning cavalry horses. Appeared suddenly a young man asks to postpone the execution for a huge bail, but the judges are adamant, and the drill is shot. The young man leaves with Paul – the son … Read more
In the harbor, which is near the capital city of Frattombrozy, there is a fairly battered storm of a galley under the command of the valiant Venetian Pantalone. On it, Prince Gennaro carries the bride to his brother, King Millon. But Armilla, the daughter of the Damascus king, turned out not to be free: Gennaro, … Read more
Chapter 1 In the provincial town of NN comes a certain gentleman who stayed at the hotel and “with extremely subtlety” began to question the servants about the local officials and landlords. Curious lord is a college adviser Paul Ivanovich Chichikov. The next day he visited many city officials, starting with the governor. In conversations … Read more
The work contains autobiographical details, the narration is conducted from the first person. The narrator, Rey Smith, a young man from the beatnik generation, travels in America by passing cars and in freight trains, often stays in the open air and lives by casual earnings, contented with the few that Heaven and the Dharma Law … Read more
The current young readers, perhaps, do not remember such a name – Arkady Gaidar. And the children of the Land of Soviets once selflessly played in “Timur and his team,” wept over the “Military Secret” and rejoiced with Chuk and Huck. Among the popular works of the author was the story “The Blue Cup”. A … Read more
M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin History of one city This story is a “true” chronicle of the city of Glupov, “Glupovsky Chronicler”, embracing a period of time from 1731 to 1825, which was “successively” composed by four stupid archivists. In the chapter “From the publisher” the author especially insists on the authenticity of the “Chronicler” and offers … Read more
The validity period is undefined. As a result of an explosion somewhere in the nuclear explosion, a group of teenagers who were being evacuated are on an uninhabited island. First on the seashore there are Ralph and a fat boy with glasses called Piggy. Having found a large shell on the seabed, they use it … Read more
VM Garshin Bears In the city of Belsk, the police chief is going to enforce a decree that gypsies must shoot their bears after 5 years of delay. The whole city is going to a spectacle. Gypsies try to bribe “high honor”, but it’s not in his power to abolish the decree – all that … Read more
The Monk Sergei was born in the Tver land, during the reign of Prince Dmitry of Tver, under Metropolitan Petra. The saint’s parents were noble and pious people. His father was called Cyril, and his mother was called Maria. An amazing miracle happened before the birth of the saint, when he was in the womb … Read more
IS Turgenev Diary of a superfluous man The idea to start a diary came to Chelkatourine on March 20. The doctor admitted finally that he had to live for two weeks. Soon the rivers will burst. Together with the last snow they will take away his life. Who can tell his gloomy thoughts at the … Read more
Daedalus, a descendant of Erechtheus, the ancient Athenian king, was the greatest and most talented sculptor, artist and architect of Athens. He built magnificent buildings and carved marble beautiful statues that looked like living. Previously, the Greeks depicted people who looked like stuffed dolls with their eyes closed. Daedalus taught them how to carve out … Read more
The oracle predicted to King Argos, Akrisia, that he would perish at the hands of his grandson. To avoid such a fate, Acrisius imprisoned his daughter Danai in the underground chambers, so that no one saw her, but Zeus fell in love with Danae and penetrated her as a golden rain. From this marriage Perseus … Read more
In the well-to-do house live Vasily Vasilyevich Bessemionov, 58, the foreman of the paint shop, who marks a deputy in the city duma from the shop class; Akulina Ivanovna, his wife; son Peter, a former student, expelled for taking part in unlawful student meetings; daughter Tatyana, a schoolteacher who sat up in brides; pupil Bessemeenova … Read more
The novel in three books, saturated with excerpts from authentic ancient Egyptian texts, adjacent to the highly modernized social realities of the distant past, begins with an introduction in which the author sets out his views on the history of the ancient Egyptian state: “Egypt flourished as long as a monolithic people, energetic kings and … Read more
The action takes place in the USSR in the summer of 1928. Vladimir I. Persikov, Professor of Zoology at the IV State University and Director of the Moscow Zoo Institute, quite unexpectedly makes a scientific discovery of enormous importance: in the eyepiece of the microscope, with a random motion of a mirror and lens, he … Read more
On the main square of Argos there is a mosquito-stained statue of Jupiter, Waving off large fat flies, enters Orestes. Screams scream from the palace. Fifteen years ago, Clytemnestra, the mother of Orestes and Elektra, and her lover Egisf killed their father Agamemnon. Aegisthus wanted to kill Orestes, but the boy managed to escape. And … Read more
Performed in picturesque contrasts, the color of “Giaura” is distinguished also by the following Byron’s work of the “eastern” cycle – the more extensive poem “The Corsair” written with heroic couplets. In a short prosaic introduction to a poem dedicated to the writer’s fellow author and fellow thinker Thomas Moore, the author cautions against the … Read more
Romain Rolland Cola Bryunion “The smoking-room is alive…” – Cola cries to friends who came to see if he died from the plague. But no, Cola Bryunnon, “an old sparrow of Burgundian blood, full of spirit and belly, no longer the first youth, half-century knocked, but strong,” is not going to leave his beloved land … Read more
Sashka, the hero of Andreev’s “Christmas story,” possessed an unruly and courageous soul, could not calmly take to evil and took revenge on life. For this purpose, he beat his comrades, rudely bribed his superiors, tore up the textbooks, and lied to the teachers and mothers all day… Before Christmas Sasha was kicked out of … Read more
F. Schlegel Lucinda Julius tries to find Lucinda where he used to see her-in her room, on their couch-and, without finding her, begins to conduct with her a strange, meaningless conversation, then giving herself up to the will of his fantasies, then resorting to the help of the inscriptions he once wrote, preserved by her … Read more
Yu. G. O’Neill Love under the elms The action takes place in New England on the farm of Effraim Cabot in 1850. In the spring, the old Cabot leaves somewhere unexpectedly, leaving the farm for the sons – the eldest, Simeon and Peter (they are under forty), and Ebina, born in a second marriage (he … Read more
Stepanida and Petrok Bogatka live on the farm of Jáchymovschina, three kilometers from the village of Vyselki. Their son Fedya serves in tank troops, the daughter of Fenya studies “on the doctor” in Minsk. The war begins. The front is rapidly rolling to the east, the Germans are coming. There comes a terrible life in … Read more
The schooner “Pilgrim” is moving towards San Francisco. There are a lot of people on board, among them Captain Gul, five experienced sailors, a fifteen-year-old junior sailor – the orphan Dick Send, the ship Negro, and the wife of the owner of the Pilgrim James Weldon – Mrs. Weldon, with her five-year-old son Jack, her … Read more