Magha Killing Sisupala A poem borrowing one of the plots of the Mahabharata In Dvaraka, the capital of the Yadav family, is the divine sage Narada and transmits to Krishna, the leader of the Yadavas and the earthly incarnation of the god Vishnu, a message from the king of the gods of Indra with a … Read more
In the house of the godmother Miss Barberry, where the childhood of Esther Summerston passes, the girl feels alone. She seeks to know the secret of her birth, asks the godfather to tell her something about her mother, but to no avail. One day, after returning from school, the girl finds an unfamiliar master at … Read more
Action develops in Athens. Everything begins with the monologue of the slave Lava; the host of his friend Geta, the young Antiphones marries for love and under quite ordinary circumstances. After giving Goethe to return the debt: it took money for a gift to the young. As we can see, the tradition of such gifts … Read more
The poem “Son of the artilleryman” Simonov can be divided into five parts. The first is devoted to the description of the friendship of the two majors, Deyev and Petrov. Both fought together in the Civil War with the Whites, then served in the artillery regiment. Petrov had a son, Lyonka, who became Deyev’s favorite, … Read more
In his address to the reader, the author says that, while creating his work, he was guided by what he liked most in the works of Plutarch, Apuleius, Aesop, Homer, or Barkley. Trying to combine such different properties in one text, Gracian begins his novel, consisting of the main “crises” so. On the sea route … Read more
Trouble There once was a Little Baba Yaga – that is, a witch – and she was only one hundred and twenty-seven years old. For the real Baba-Yaga this, of course, is not age! We can say that this Baba Yaga was still a girl. She lived in a tiny hut, standing alone in the … Read more
The action takes place in the provincial Swiss town of Güllen in the 50’s. XX century. In the town comes the old multimillionaire Clara Tsakhanassyan, a nee Vesher, a former resident of Gullen. At one time several industrial enterprises worked in the town, but one by one they went bankrupt, and the town came to … Read more
Part one For all his life Kolya Pluzhnikov did not meet so many pleasant surprises, how many had fallen in the last three weeks. The order for conferring on him, Nikolai Petrovich Pluzhnikov, was waiting for the military rank for a long time, but unexpected surprises sprang up after him. Kolya woke up at night … Read more
In November 1932 Gustav Opperman turns fifty. He is the senior owner of a furniture manufacturing company, owner of a solid current account in a bank and a beautiful mansion in Berlin, built and furnished to his own taste. The work attracts him a little, he appreciates his worthy, informative leisure more. A passionate bibliophile, … Read more
The play takes place at the beginning of the XIX century. in the Dutch village of Guizum, near Utrecht, in January. The scene of action is the court room. Adam, the village judge, is sitting and bandaging his leg. Likht comes in, the scribe, and sees that Adam has a face full of bruises, a … Read more