AI Polezhaev Sasha The poem is written in the first person. A student at Moscow University Sashka Polezhaev, a friend, goes to St. Petersburg to visit his uncle. Do you remember how Pushkin at the beginning of the novel “Eugene Onegin” hero also goes to his uncle? It looks like that. He was born in … Read more
The action takes place in the middle of the XIX century. In one of the ordinary London nights in the life of Mr. Dombey, the greatest event is happening – his son is born. Henceforth his firm, in whose management he sees the meaning of his life, will again not only by name, but also … Read more
DG Lawrence Lover of Lady Chatterley In 1917, Constance Reid, a twenty-two-year-old girl, the daughter of the famous Royal Academy artist Sir Malkom Reid, is married to Baron Clifford Chatterley. Six months after the wedding, Clifford, all this time participating in the war in Flanders,. Returns back to England with severe wounds, as a result … Read more
C. McCarthy Koni, horses America, Texas, 1946. The old man is dying the owner of the ranching ranch. His thirty-six-year-old daughter intends to sell the land – she does not bring income, and life in the outskirts definitely does not suit the heiress. Sixteen-year-old John Grady tries to persuade his mother not to sell the … Read more
Candide, a pure and sincere youth, is brought up in the impoverished castle of a beggar, but a vain Westphalian Baron, along with his son and daughter. Their home teacher, Dr. Panglass, a homegrown philosopher-metaphysician, taught the children that they live in the best of the worlds, where everything has a cause and effect, and … Read more
Plaut Curcudion 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 … Read more
30-ies of the last century. The conquest of the Caucasus, which knew much more “stormy days” under Alexei Petrovich Ermolov, is drawing to a close. “Foreign forces”, of course, are burdened by “the land of holy liberty,” and, of course, he is indignant, but not so much as to block the Military-Georgian road. The author, … Read more
Police agent Yablonskaya visits St. Petersburg, where he meets with the Inspector of the secret police Sudeikin. Yablonsky’s career went sky high, he recently issued to the authorities a revolutionary, Vera Figner. This happened in Kharkov, and now the prisoner was in the grip of the all-powerful director of the police department V. K. Plehve, … Read more
Chor and Kalinych Once, while hunting in the Kaluga region, I met with the local gentleman Polutkin. He also like I loved hunting. Polutkin made an offer to live on his estate. The road was long, so it was decided to call on one of the peasants’ men-Horia. He was not at home. The chorus … Read more
The story “Man in a case” Chekhov wrote in 1898. The work is the first story of the “Little Trilogy” of the writer – the cycle, which also included the stories “Gooseberries” and “About Love.” In “The Man in a Case” Chekhov talks about the teacher of the dead languages Belikov, who tried to conclude … Read more