James Joyce Portrait of the artist in his youth Stephen Dedal remembers how in childhood his father told him a fairy tale about the boy Bu-bu and the cow Mu-mu, how his mother played a piano dance to him on the piano, and he danced. In school in the preparatory class, Stephen is one of … Read more
Very funny and at the same time very instructive story “Barankin, be a man!” was created in 1961 by the Soviet writer Valery Vladimirovich Medvedev. This amazing story will tell you about the adventures of two friends – classmates-semes Yura Barankin and Kostya Malinin, who once suddenly did not want to learn. It all started … Read more
EP Jakobsen Niels Lüne Roman is a story of the life and pursuits of a Danish intellectual, a contemporary of Jacobsen, whom the author carries back a generation – about twenty years. The book opens with a description of the characters of the hero’s parents: his mother is an enthusiastic romantic soul living in a … Read more
The novel is a family chronicle with a sequel. The events described in the novel unfold in Paris in the 19th century. and begin with the fact that in 1815, after serving in the French National Guard, Florent Bussardel, the son of a recently deceased prominent customs official, returns to the bosom of the family. … Read more
JR Kipling Mary Gloucester Dies Anthony Gloucester – “one of the rulers of the market” (the so-called his newspaper). Before his death, he calls his son Dick (“I paid for your whims, did not forbid anything… I created myself and millions, but I’m cursed – you are not my son!”), Who tells the story of … Read more
The work of A. Konan Doyle “Motley Ribbon” is included in the series of works about Sherlock Holmes, detective extremely talented and intelligent. The narrative is conducted on behalf of Dr. Watson, a friend of Sherlock Holmes. … In one April morning the Sherlock Holmes house was visited by a certain girl, a client. It … Read more
Japan of the thirties. Someone Simamura, a middle-aged man, travels by train to a snowy country – this is the name of the harsh mountainous region in the north of Honshu, which is famous for its heavy snowfalls. For the first time he came there to admire the northern nature a year ago in the … Read more
The receptionist of a wholesaler of ready-to-wear clothing, Takichiro Sada, observes that two bunches of violets have blossomed on an old maple tree growing near their house – they grow in two small hollows on the trunk of an old maple tree and blossom every spring as Tieko remembers herself. They seem like a girl … Read more
Samson, blinded, humiliated and scolded, languishes in captivity with the Philistines, in the prison of the city of Gaza. Slave labor wears out his body, and spiritual suffering torments the soul. Neither day nor night Samson can not forget about what a glorious hero was before, and these memories inflict bitter torments on him. He … Read more
32-year-old mentally retarded Charlie Gordon lives in New York and works as a cleaner in a private bakery where his uncle arranged it. He almost does not remember his parents and younger sister. Charlie goes to a special school, where the teacher Alice Kinnian teaches him to read and write. One day, Miss Kinnian leads … Read more