JH Updike Let’s get married A secluded beach on the Connecticut coast near the fictional city of Greenwood. Jerry Conant and Sally Matthias meet there secretly. Each of them has their own families, children, but they are irresistibly attracted to each other. Again and again they start talking about finding the strength to break with … Read more
AF Prevost History of the Chevalier de Grieux and Manon Lescot The story takes place in the era of the Regency (1715-1723), when the mores of French society were extremely free. With the cheerful and frivolous regent Philippe of Orleans in France, immediately began the reaction to the “lean” spirit that reigned under the elderly … Read more
In ancient times, when the Lord God walked still on the earth, it happened that one evening he was tired, he was caught in the night, and there was nowhere he could spend the night. And there were two houses on the road, one against the other; was one big and beautiful, and the other … Read more
LF Baum Rinkitink in Oz The island of Pingareea is in the Unknown Ocean, north of the kingdom of Rinkitinia, separated from the country of Oz by the Wicked Desert and the possessions of the King of the Dwarves. Pingareei is ruled by King Kitticut, and his subjects are mainly engaged in pearls, which they … Read more
VP Astafyev Lyudochka Fifteen years ago, the author heard this story, and he does not know why, she lives in it and burns her heart. “Maybe it’s all about her depressing routine, in her disarming simplicity?” It seems to the author that the heroine was called Lyudochka. She was born in a small endangered village … Read more
The play contains, as it were, two parallel actions. The first is social and the second is philosophical. Both actions develop in parallel, not intertwining. There are two planes in the play: external and internal. The external plan. In the doss house, owned by Mikhail Ivanovich Kostylev and his wife Vasilisa Karpovna, “the former people”, … Read more
The story takes place in 1928. The narrative is conducted from the first person; the narrator remembers his childhood many years later. Ten-year-old Sanka is an orphan: his father died in a civil war, his mother died of typhus. He lives in the village of Kamyshinka with his aunt Egoricha and Uncle Ivan. Aunt Egorich, … Read more
The narrator listened to these stories in Bessarabia, on the seashore. He then worked with a group of Moldovans. They went to the sea in the evening, and the narrator remained in the vineyard with the old woman Izergil. Moldovans walked and sang, they were cheerful and beautiful in the rays of the setting sun. … Read more
The novel is written in the form of a diary of the licentiate of medicine Tyuko Gabriel Glass. In his thirty-three years he never knew a woman. He does not hide that far from everything tells about himself, however he does not make a fool of himself, believing the diary of his thoughts and feelings. … Read more
Calm, free story about past events. The beginning, characteristic of Turgenev. On a winter evening, six people gathered at an old university friend. People, apparently, are not young and with education. Speech went by the way about Shakespeare, about the fact that his types are “snatched from the very depths of the human” essence. “Everyone … Read more