Muriel Spark Miss Jean Brodie in the prime of life The heroine of the novel – six girls-schoolgirls, united in the “Brodie clan” by the will of their beloved teacher, Miss Gene Brodie. The action takes place in Edinburgh in the thirties. Miss Brodie leads a class of little girls in the elementary branch of … Read more
Arthur Miller It happened in Vichy Action takes place in France in 1942. Pre-trial detention. Several men and a boy of fifteen are sitting on the bench, anxiety and fear are on their faces, all of them were seized right on the street and German soldiers were brought here. Detainees are lost in conjecture – … Read more
Each of those living on earth is the result of countless additions: four thousand years ago in Crete love could begin, which ended yesterday in Texas. Every life is a moment, open to eternity, Wolfe says. And here is one of them… Eugene Gant is a descendant of the Englishman Gilbert Gant, who arrived in … Read more
Albert at all costs wants to get to the knight tournament. Having examined the helmet, he sees that he is pierced, spoiled, impossible to wear. Alter is angry with Count Delorme, who has spoiled his helmet. Ivan calms the Master, worthy of his revenge on the offender – the Count barely rose through the sutki. … Read more
Part one. Drops of blood The eyes of the fiery serpent are falling on the river Skoroden and the naked virgins bathing there. They are the sisters Elisaveta and Elena, the daughters of the rich landowner Rameyev. They are discussing with curiosity the appearance in the city of the privat-docent, doctor of chemistry Georgi Sergeevich … Read more
NV Gogol Nevsky Prospekt Here you will find everything you want. In the morning it is for employees; from 12 – for tutors and children; from 2 pm – for parents and society. Nevsky Prospect is an exhibition of people. At 3 o’clock here dinner officials, and with 4 empty, but in the evening walkers … Read more
May 20, 1859, Nikolai Petrovich Kirsanov, a forty-three-year-old landowner who was already middle-aged, worried, awaits his son Arkady, who had just graduated from the university, at the inn. Nikolai Petrovich was the son of a general, but his military career did not take place. Nikolai Petrovich early married a daughter of an ignorant official and … Read more
FM Dostoevsky The idiot The novel takes place in St. Petersburg and Pavlovsk late 1867 – early 1868. Prince Leo Nikolayevich Myshkin comes to Petersburg from Switzerland. He is twenty-six years old, he is the last of the noble noble family, he was orphaned early, as a child he fell ill with a serious nervous … Read more
The young senior lieutenant Galtsev, the interim commander of the battalion, was awakened in the middle of the night. A boy of about twelve was detained near the shore, all wet and shivering from the cold. Galtsev’s strict questions are answered only by the fact that his name is Bondarev, and demands immediately to report … Read more
NURNBERG MASTERZINGERS Opera in three acts (four scenes) R. Wagner’s libretto Characters: Meistersingers: Hans Sachs, shoemaker Faith Pogner, goldsmith Kunz Vogelsang, the Skinner Conrad Nachtigal, tinsmith Sixt Beckmesser, city clerk Fritz Kotner, baker Balthasar Zorn, Tin Works Master Ulrich Aislinger, a spice dealer Augustine Moser, tailor Hermann Ortel, soap maker Hans Schwartz, stocking Hans Foltz, … Read more