A. P. Chekhov The Boots Osip Ivanovich Dymov, titular counselor and doctor of thirty-one years, serves in two hospitals at the same time: an intern and a draftor. From nine o’clock in the morning until noon he takes the sick, then goes to open the corpses. But his income is barely enough to cover the … Read more
V. V. Nabokov Lolita Humbert Humbert, a thirty-seven-year-old lecturer in French literature, has an unusual inclination for nymphets, as he calls them – charming girls from nine to fourteen. A long childhood impression gave him this clandestine experience, which warded off more mature women. The action of the confessional novel written by Humberts in prison … Read more
Captain von Schlett is trying on a new uniform, ordered in the tailor’s studio of the military tailor, the Jew Adolf Wormser, in Potsdam. This is a very well known at the beginning of the century officer’s studio, Wormser – the royal court supplier. Despite the assurances of the cutter Vabshke, that the uniform sits … Read more
“Ada” is a grandiose parody of different literary genres: from the novels of Leo Tolstoy through the cycle of Marcel Proust “In search of lost time” to fiction in the spirit of Kurt Vonnegut. The novel takes place in a country that originated from the assumption that the Kulikovo battle ended in the victory of … Read more
Poem to one of the plots of the “Mahabharata” During the stay of the Pandava brothers in the twelve-year forest exile, their common wife Draupadi once rebuked the eldest brother among the brothers – Yudhisthira in inaction, indecision, indulgence to the kauravas, and urged them to attack them immediately. A second brother, Bhima, agreed with … Read more
In September 1941, the Nazi troops advanced far into the depths of Soviet territory. Many areas of Ukraine and Belarus were occupied. Remained on the territory occupied by the Germans and lost in the steppes of hamlets, where the young woman Maria, her husband Ivan and their son Vasyatka lived happily. Having seized previously peaceful … Read more
JR Kipling Small tales Why the whale eats only small fish When the whale has eaten all the fish, a small cunning little fish described to him the whole charm of a man’s snack and told where to find it, but warned that man is a restless creature. Kit swallowed the sailor along with his … Read more
P. Metastasio Demofonte Dircea begs her father Matius not to rebel against the law, which requires the annual sacrifice of the young virgin of the noble family to Apollo. The name of the victim determines the lot. Only the royal daughters are spared from the terrible duty, and even then because they were sent by … Read more
August 1931. From the Mexican port of Veracruz the German passenger steamer “Vera” sails, which in mid-September is due to arrive in Bremerhaven. From the torn by the political passions of Mexico, the ship follows to Germany, where national socialism raises its head. The diverse passenger community – Germans, Swiss, Spanish, Cubans, Americans – together … Read more
Before you, blin, is nothing like a society of the future, and your humble narrator, shorty Alex, will now tell you in what kal he is here vliapalsia. We sat, as always, in the milk bar “Korova”, where the milk is served plus, we also call it “milk with knives”, that is, add any seduxen, … Read more
R. Akutagawa Web site One morning, Buddha wandered alone along the shore of a paradise pond. He stopped in thought and suddenly saw everything that was happening on the bottom of the Lotus Pond, reaching to the very depths of the underworld. A lot of sinners were crowding down there. The Buddha’s eyes fell on … Read more
The novel takes place in the middle of the 16th century. Madame de Chartres, for many years after her husband’s death, lived away from the court, and her daughter comes to Paris. Mademoiselle de Chartres goes to the jeweler to choose jewelry. There she accidentally meets the Prince of Cleves, the second son of the … Read more
In the Prague Castle of the King of Bohemia, Přemysl Ottokar, confusion reigns among his courtiers. Ottokar dissolves the marriage with his wife Margarita of Austria, the widow of the German Emperor Heinrich von Hohenstaufen. The king concluded this marriage for reasons of profit, in order to take possession of Austria, which belongs to the … Read more
KI ChukovskyTharakanische “Bears were riding Bicycles, followed by a cat Back in front, followed by mosquitoes on a balloon, followed by crayfish On a lame dog, wolves on a mare, Lions in a car, Bunnies in a tramcar Toad on a broomstick…” They go and laugh, when suddenly a terrible giant climbs out of the … Read more
The novel takes place in a fairly large American city under the loud name Zenith. The main hero of the novel, George Babbitt, a forty-five-year-old owner of the agency that sells and leases real estate, lives on the outskirts of the city, in the prestigious, rapidly developing area of ”Blooming Hills.” He has a family … Read more
The action takes place in Spain, where rich fathers specifically hire evil duennies, so that they look after their young daughters and strictly abused their morality. This is exactly how Don Geronimo, the father of the beautiful Luisa, acted. However, he grossly made a mistake in his calculations… Night. Don Don Antonio, a wealthy nobleman, … Read more
Herbert Wells War of the Worlds In 1877, the Italian astronomer Giovanni Virgino Schiaparelli (1835-1910) discovered on Mars a network of straight lines, which he called the canals. There was a hypothesis that these channels are artificial structures. Such a point of view was later refuted, but during her lifetime, Schiaparelli enjoyed wide recognition. And … Read more
I go to the patronal feast in the prison church together with Maman and Alexandra Lvovna Ley. Here we meet “mademazel” Gorshkov and her little students. I read about the city of En, about Chichikov and Manilov. We go for a walk with the nurse Cecilia, she leads me to the church. On the street … Read more
At the corner of two lanes of the county town there was a police box. The soapbubber of the Mymrets, who lived in it, belonged to the category of people, completely “worthless in the army.” Such people are usually interested only in drinking, they are afraid to be afraid of their bosses before death, but … Read more
RL Stevenson Black Arrow The action takes place in England in the second half of the 15th century, during the Wars of the Roses and the Roses. In the village of Tenstall, owned by Sir Daniel Brackley, a messenger appears who brings Sir Daniel’s order to the entire male population of the village to immediately … Read more
Five years ago I was in Lebedyan at the height of the fair. I stopped at the hotel, changed clothes and went to the fair. A sexual at the hotel managed to inform me that Prince N. and many other masters had stopped at them. I wanted to buy three horses for my brichka. I … Read more
PF Nilin Cruelty The county town of Dudary in Siberia. 20-ies. The narrative is conducted on behalf of the participant of the described events, which he recalls many years later. The author of the narrative, who has never been named after the novel (hereinafter referred to as the Author), works in the criminal investigation department … Read more
ALMAST Opera in four acts with an epilogue Libretto by S. Parnock Characters: Tatul, the Armenian prince Princess Almast, Tatul’s wife Ruben, the battle comrade of Tatula Gayane, the servant and confidante Almast Nadir Shah Shaykh, Shah’s approximate Shah’s bodyguard Ali-Murad, Shah’s military leader Ashug, the court singer of the Shah Baritone Mezzo soprano Bass … Read more
January 29, 1873, the schooner-brig “Pilgrim”, equipped for whaling, goes on a voyage from the port of Oakland, New Zealand. On board are the brave and experienced captain Gul, five experienced sailors, the fifteen-year-old sailor-sailor Dick Send, the ship Negro, and the wife of the owner of Pilgrim James Weldon-Mrs. Weldon, with her five-year-old son … Read more
Pio Baroja-i-Nessi (December 28, 1872 – October 30, 1956, Madrid) is a Spanish writer, one of the key figures of the “generation of 1898”. In the border town of Basque, Vera del Bidasoa, was born on December 28, 1872, Pio Baroja and Nessi. Like Unamuno and Maestu, he was a bash. From 1872 to 1879 … Read more
Petr Pavlovich Ershov (February 22 (March 6) 1815, Bezrukovo, Ishim district, Tobolsk province – August 18 (18), Tobolsk) is a Russian poet, writer and playwright. Born in the family of an official. Father for business related activities, often moved. The Ershovs crossed the chain of Cossack settlements, visited places where the legends about the times … Read more
To the old woman Agafya Zhuravleva, the son Konstantin Ivanovich arrived. With his wife and daughter. To visit, relax. I drove in a taxi, and they dragged suitcases out of the trunk for a long time with their family. By the evening in the village they learned the details: he himself is a candidate, the … Read more
H. Hauptmann Weavers The basis of the plot of the drama was a historical event – the uprising of the Silesian weavers of 1844. House of Drayciger, the owner of the paper factory in Peterswaldau. In a special room, the weavers hand over the finished fabric, the receiver Pfeifer controls, and the cashier Neiman counts … Read more
Brother and sister – Felix Young and Baroness Eugenia Munster – first come to life in the life of their mother to America. They grew up in Europe, feel Europeans and anxiously await a meeting with the Wentworth family – uncles, cousins and cousins. Felix is the first to get acquainted with relatives, but finds … Read more
EI Zamyatin Uyezd Uyezd small Anfim Baryb is called an “iron”. He has heavy iron jaws, a broad quadrangular mouth and a narrow forehead. Yes, and the entire Baryba of hard straight and corners. And out of all this comes some terrible harmony. The guys-riders are afraid of Baryba: the beast, he will kill him … Read more
SD Dovlatov Compromise The main character, a journalist, left without work, leafing through his newspaper clippings collected for “ten years of lies and pretense.” It’s the 70’s when he lived in Tallinn. Each newspaper text-compromise is followed by the author’s memories – real conversations, feelings, events. Having listed in the note those countries from which … Read more
John Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath On the dusty road among the maize fields of Oklahoma is a man of about thirty. This is Tom Jowd. After serving time in prison for an accidental murder, he returns home to the farm. He leaves the prison ahead of schedule and therefore has no right to leave the … Read more
Saul Bellow, born in Solomon Belous, June 10, 1915, Lashin, Quebec, Canada – April 5, 2005, Brooklyn, Massachusetts, USA) is an American writer of Jewish origin, a Nobel Prize in literature for 1976, a prose writer, also known as an essayist and teacher. Saul Bellow was born June 10, 1915 in the town of Lashin … Read more
MUSA JALIL Opera poem in seven scenes Libretto by A. S. Faizy Characters: Musa Jalil, the poet The poet’s wife Zhuravlyov, colonel, commander of the detachment Andre, a Belgian, a prisoner of war Kazanfarov, Lieutenant Hayat, Tatar girl, hijacked To fascist Germany Mad woman with a child, Belarus Kovalev, the foreman Dramatic tenor Lyric-dramatic soprano … Read more
George Farker Recruiting Officer Sergeant Kite in the market square of Shrewsbury city calls on all those who are unhappy with their lives to enlist in grenadiers and promises ranks and money. He suggests that those wishing to try on a grenadier’s cap, but people listen to him cautiously and do not rush to enlist … Read more
Part 1. Anniversaries and triumphs “There were times worse, / But there was no base,” – reads the author of the 70’s. XIX century. In order to see this, it is enough to look into one of the expensive restaurants. In the hall number 1 dignitaries gathered: the jubilee of the administrator is celebrated. Among … Read more
Children’s camp in Siberia rested with friends from childhood and classmates Tanya Sabaneyeva and Filka and now they return home. The girl is met at home by an old dog Tiger and an old nurse. The girl dreams of the wild Australian dog Dingo, subsequently children so it will be called for isolation from the … Read more
The work of M. Bulgakov “Towel with a Rooster” tells the reader about the life of a young doctor in the provinces. According to the distribution after the medical university, he is in the village of Murievo, where he must take the post of chief physician. Before him, this place was occupied by a certain … Read more
T. Junichiro Tattoo “It was at a time when people revered frivolity for virtue, but life was not overshadowed, as in our days, severe hardship.” It was an age of idleness… “People went for everything for the sake of beauty, without stopping to cover their body tattooed. Among fans of such jewelry were not only … Read more
The story begins with a few obituary notices about the death of a seventeen-year-old Edgar Vibo. Then follows the dialogue of the mother and father of the deceased youth. These two broke up when their son was only five years old. Since then, my father has never seen him, except for one instance when the … Read more
UPGRADED PRECISION Opera in four acts (eight scenes) Libretto by LI Dzerzhinsky Characters: Davydov Nagulnov Makar Lushka, his wife Grandfather Shchukar Lyubishkin Islander Jacob Polovtsev Damaskov Frol Timothy, his son Bannik Khoprov Wife of Khoprov Ulyana An old man with a cigar Cossack with a newspaper The fucking guy 2nd guy Cossack 2 peasants 2 … Read more
AK Tolstoy Prince Serebryan Starting the narrative, the author declares that his main goal is to show the general character of the epoch, its morals, concepts, beliefs, and therefore he allowed a deviation from history in detail – and concludes that his most important feeling was indignation : not so on John, as a society, … Read more
The story is based on the philosophy of Serenus Tseitblom. Born in 1883, he graduated from the gymnasium of the town of Kaisersaherna, then the university, becomes a teacher of classical languages and acquires a family. Adrian Leverkun is two years younger. Early childhood he spends in the parental estate, near Kaisersaherna. The entire way … Read more
IA Bunin. not recognizing the division of literature into prose and lyrics, created a collection of stories “Dark alleys”, amazing in beauty and tragedy of the world outlook. The story of the life of the heroine of the story “Cold Autumn” is penetrating and poetic, seemingly simple, set out in dry language. As in the … Read more
Events unfold in France eighteen years after the end of the First World War. Gaston, a man who fought against Germany and lost his memory at the end of the war, along with Master Yuspar, the attorney representing his interests, and the Duchess DuPont-Dufon, lady-patroness of the hospice for the mentally ill, where Gaston spent … Read more
IA Bunin Tanya Showing hunger and impoverishment in the village in winter. Tanya – a little girl – is sleeping on the stove with her brother Vaska (their father Korney and mother Mary). The family had to sell the cow and for a pittance the horse. But there is still nothing to feed the children … Read more
In the city of T. on the shabby and dirty Rasteriaev street there live many poor people: petty officials, petty bourgeois, craftsmen. Among them – a young pistol master Prokhor Porfirych. He is “from the noble”: the illegitimate son of a master, a police official. But the origin did not make Prohor’s life easier. Glafira, … Read more
We meet a young hero when they have two passions – to the theater and Mariana, and he is full of happy enthusiasm and enthusiastic plans. His father, a respectable burgher, created his initial capital by selling a collection of father’s paintings, and then made his fortune a successful trade, now he wants his son … Read more
Maxim Gorky A song about a petrel A cloud wind gathers above a gray plain of the sea. Between the clouds and the sea proudly thunderstorm Burevestnik, a black lightning like. Then, with a wing of the wave touching, then with an arrow soaring to the clouds, he screams, and the clouds hear joy in … Read more
A. Pushkin Boris Godunov February 20, 1598 For a month already Boris Godunov shut himself up with his sister in a monastery, leaving “all worldly” and refusing to accept the Moscow throne. The people explain Godunov’s refusal to marry the kingdom in the right spirit for Boris: “He is afraid of the radiance of the … Read more